TheEternalOptimist said:

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My 14 year old son started playing football for his Catholic High School.

The boys use language and phrases that would have gotten my now adult children kicked out of school for even using outside of school or on social media.

White kids and black kids making jokes even about race, stereotypes, etc..... everyone laughs and gets along.

My son's best friend discovered George Strait music recently through the players taking turns on locker room music. He is a black kid. He wore boots, jeans, and a cowboy hat in the locker room that had a picture that said 'George Strait Is My N___a'.

A completely different experience from my older girls who had to walk on egg shells.

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Life is going back to normal. Finally.

El Gallo Blanco said:

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TacosaurusRex said:

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If you don't mind op, what is your age range? We had this discussion the other day at lunch and we were in agreement that kids these days were acting a lot more like we were in the 90's and early 2000's. We were cool with everyone, and we ragged on each other like we were our biggest enemies. To this day, nothing comes close to those friendships built in locker rooms, and we couldn't have been a more diverse group.

I have heard kids say r***d and dropping f bombs on obviously straight kids lately. I am happy we are moving back towards a happy medium. The reason I asked your age was because maybe enough parents have said, eff it. We want our kids to have a childhood like ours and they aren't playing the games anymore.

ETA: one of our theories was it was mostly Gen X. Then you had us millennials that had older siblings and were in the older half of millennials that acted like this. Another random point I brought up was that my age group was the last to play outside. Like every generation before us, we were outside 24/7 in summers as kids, but that died between my little brother and me. His generation of friends never once met at the park, climbed fences, or anything we would recognize as kid summer life . He is only four years younger than me. Those free AOL CD's were all those kids were after.

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I see a lot more teens, pre-teens and kids playing unsupervised out here in Cypress than I did when we were actually living in the city of Houston. I NEVER saw that in Heights/Oak Forest area. Never.

I regularly see kids fishing together, riding around in golf carts or ATV's, riding bikes or e-bikes/scooters (can you imagine having these ini the 80's?). Gives me a little hope. That being said, this dies down during the summer significantly. I feel like we were much more heat-tolerant back then than kids are now.

I am with you, I was born in 81 and that is how we were raised, and it was awesome.

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You know who was raising you? Boomers. Boomers are old school….for the most part. I know I'm cool.

I used to often say "******"…not so much after we have a kid with Down syndrome in the family. Feels ignorant now. I hear it often still, mostly from people that have a limited vocabulary. I don't believe people should be crucified over it, cancelled, whatever. But championing its return to prevalent use is sad.

Athanasius said:

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A bit of a warning:

Your laptops, cell phones, ipads, alexa's and other technologies are actively listening and recording you in your home.

I am skeptical the swing away from wokeism is for the long term. Look at how much Trump has done that is NOT codified into law, just EOs.

See how the UK is treating thought crimes. I can see that coming back, and your data will be out there forever to be used against you.

Just be careful.

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Nah let them have fun. Don't self censor because of some lunatics. That's the problem with the UK is they just let people tell them what to do.

93MarineHorn said:

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Im Gipper said:

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I was visiting him in Canada

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Spotted the problem


(And a sip dad )

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Yeah, my ex is Canadian and my sons love the natural beauty as well as the skiing and rock climbing up there. I was on Vancouver Island and it is pretty much the most beautiful country I've ever seen. Unfortunately, the locals are quite liberal for the most part.

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strange how libs always seem to monopolize the most beautiful real estate in the nation: west coast, Colorado and New Mexico come to mind immediately.

New Mexico? I guess the mountains are OK, but "beautiful real estate" isn't the first thing that comes to mind when you mention that state. NM has some of the ugliest land you can find anywhere in North America.

As a gen Z'er that has gone through HS, college and now in a work place, I do very much agree gen Z is less concerned with appeasing the feelings of every person on the planet than millennials.
More genuine because of it I think too. These are generalities of course and exceptions exist.

agent-maroon said:

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New Mexico? I guess the mountains are OK, but "beautiful real estate" isn't the first thing that comes to mind when you mention that state. NM has some of the ugliest land you can find anywhere in North America.

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Have you only been to the southeast corner of the state? It's a beautiful damn state otherwise.

SE mostly. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Went to Taos once and it really didn't do anything for me.

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A bit of a warning:

Your laptops, cell phones, ipads, alexa's and other technologies are actively listening and recording you in your home.

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Good lord.

Yes, we all know our devices are stalking us. But not one person has ever been canceled bc of that.

They have been canceled because other PEOPLE have recorded them and released it. But not because of the robots listening.

93MarineHorn said:

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My younger son is in his mid-twenties and he and his friends are still very careful about the language they use, even around each other. He used to have such a "South Park" sense of humor about everything before wokeism did its damage. I was visiting him in Canada recently and made a joke about ICE which he kind of chuckled at but asked me not to make those kind of jokes around his friends. His age group was heavily affected by woke propaganda, sadly.

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Hah! Tell your son he's a *****

agwrestler said:

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93MarineHorn said:

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Im Gipper said:

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I was visiting him in Canada

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(And a sip dad )

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Yeah, my ex is Canadian and my sons love the natural beauty as well as the skiing and rock climbing up there. I was on Vancouver Island and it is pretty much the most beautiful country I've ever seen. Unfortunately, the locals are quite liberal for the most part.

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strange how libs always seem to monopolize the most beautiful real estate in the nation: west coast, Colorado and New Mexico come to mind immediately.

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Places that are ascetically pleasing are prized destinations which are generally populated by people who develop luxury beliefs. They have everything they want and desire far from the rabble they care so much for who have no place in their pristine neighborhoods (remember Martha's Vineyard?).

Maybe they are troubled in their world of plenty with the knowledge of the discrepancy (injustice?) between their lifestyle and the downtrodden, and, according to one theory, avoid the destructive envy of lower classes by supporting social justice causes, thereby exonerating them from their wealth and luxury.

Don't let your white kids get too comfortable. They say the N word ever and it's recorded it will follow them for life. The black kids not so much.

The kids I'm hiring out of high school these days are so much better than the ones I've been hiring. They aren't afraid to work, understand they have to put in their time and don't act like the world owes them something. I have hope for the next generation. They are going to blow past the guys in their 20s and 30s. Maybe call them GenX2.0.