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Question about 'This Generation of Kids'
Posted on 6/22/15 at 7:19 am
Posted on 6/22/15 at 7:19 am
“Nobody knew this was coming,” she said. “We just thought he was a lazy, this-generation kind of kid.”
Above is a quote I found from an article interviewing the mother of Dylann Roof. It was the final line of the article and she did express grief and sympathy toward the victims. To me, she was attempting to understand his actions and describing her perception. I am just curious; what does everyone consider characteristics of 'this-generation kind of kid'.
Please do not turn it into a racial thing. Just keep it general. I am new here and not some sort of troll or journalist writing an article. I just want opinions from folks who are anonymous and more likely to speak their version of the truth.
Thanks in advance.
Above is a quote I found from an article interviewing the mother of Dylann Roof. It was the final line of the article and she did express grief and sympathy toward the victims. To me, she was attempting to understand his actions and describing her perception. I am just curious; what does everyone consider characteristics of 'this-generation kind of kid'.
Please do not turn it into a racial thing. Just keep it general. I am new here and not some sort of troll or journalist writing an article. I just want opinions from folks who are anonymous and more likely to speak their version of the truth.
Thanks in advance.
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Posted on 6/22/15 at 7:21 am to Diesel25
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Member since Mar 2015
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I am new here and not some sort of troll or journalist writing an article
Posted on 6/22/15 at 7:24 am to Diesel25
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I am just curious; what does everyone consider characteristics of 'this-generation kind of kid'.
One whose parents never hold their kid or themselves accountable and hold their hand through life.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 7:24 am to Diesel25
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I am new here and not some sort of troll or journalist writing an article. I just want opinions from folks who are anonymous and more likely to speak their version of the truth.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 7:32 am to Diesel25
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Please do not turn it into a racial thing.
quote:above comments make you a little suspect
not some sort of troll
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I am new here
Posted on 6/22/15 at 7:33 am to LSUfan0420
Sorry people for even asking. I joined in March and haven't had a chance to follow things on TD. I guess someone new has some form of hazing period before they receive answers. I apologize for wasting your time.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 7:35 am to Diesel25
this generation of kids has lost touch with hard work, responsibility, respect, and the Lord.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 7:35 am to Diesel25
Apparently, the mother thinks that "this generation of kids" are eaten up with angst, and being directionless, have trouble finding true meaning in life, and therefore are attracted to any meme that is otherwise transparently false or at least inadequate, and make it something to wrap their meaningless life around at least until they wise up or find some other pyrite to fixate upon, but generally being too lazy and too gutless, they don't pose any real danger, other than to themselves, in spite of certain traditional warning signs that may be present. I think that is what she meant.
This post was edited on 6/22/15 at 7:38 am
Posted on 6/22/15 at 7:40 am to Jimbeaux
If you want to blame a generation blame the boomers
Posted on 6/22/15 at 7:44 am to Diesel25
People try to put down (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Just because we get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Just because we get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Posted on 6/22/15 at 7:47 am to geauxtigers87
Thanks for some serious answers. I think it is hard to pinpoint. With all the media outlets available and the internet becoming such an important part of communication- I suppose kids now are not of the mindset to research for objective sources of information. It is easy to google a phrase and find the first official looking website to study. Someone mentioned being lazy and I would agree but it appears to be a different type of lazy than past generations who did not bother in their spare time to do anything in the form of education or planning or executing any sort of plan for anything.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 7:49 am to Diesel25
No generation shares all the blame. This country has been in decline since WWII, the last time we were united against the forces of evil and shared true brotherhood and a determined spirit.
It is a sad but truthful state of affairs that it takes such a conflict for us to put aside our petty differences and unite that way.
It is a sad but truthful state of affairs that it takes such a conflict for us to put aside our petty differences and unite that way.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 7:52 am to Diesel25
Where you been man?? Every old man out there is gonna call the younger generation lazy pieces of shite. You know the whole "back in my day" story.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 8:05 am to Diesel25
Weaselly, bowl-cutted, socially maladjusted losers with white supremacist tendencies are nothing new. She just seems naive or in denial.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 8:09 am to Diesel25
"The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress."
--Peter the Hermit, 1274 AD
--Peter the Hermit, 1274 AD
Posted on 6/22/15 at 8:10 am to Diesel25
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Sorry people for even asking. I joined in March and haven't had a chance to follow things on TD. I guess someone new has some form of hazing period before they receive answers. I apologize for wasting your time
For starters, Never apologize to anyone on here. Find a way to sound right or at least plausible.
And post pics of your girlfriend or wife.
This post was edited on 6/22/15 at 8:17 am
Posted on 6/22/15 at 8:15 am to Diesel25
The dude probably got pissed off at some black fricks messing with him while playing COD and decided to do something about it.
He looks like the type that would do something like that.
He looks like the type that would do something like that.
This post was edited on 6/22/15 at 8:16 am
Posted on 6/22/15 at 8:18 am to Diesel25
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I am new here
Generally, new posters don't make threads like this. So, I don't believe you.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 8:35 am to Diesel25
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I guess someone new has some form of hazing period before they receive answers. I apologize for wasting your time.
The hazing period never ends on the OT.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 8:36 am to Diesel25
The competitive, capitalistic culture that dominates the economic landscape in the western and now entire world does not lend itself to personalities who fall outside of that competitive mindset. It is an antiquated financial system that was developed 100-150 years ago but does not address the needs of a modern, global society of now seven billion people. It benefits a small percentage of humanity who happen to be born in the right geographical area or were fortunate enough to be born into the right socioeconomic strata. And, sure, some people in this country and elsewhere have been able to be upwardly mobile as a result but six billion out of seven billion people live under conditions of $13,000 dollars or less per year. The system is unequitable and unsustainable and sets up the haves at the top and the have nots at the bottom. That is a continuous, ruinous recipe for social destabliization, alienation, and a sense of hopelessness for the vast majority of humanity. People are finally waking up to this. You cannot maintain endless growth year over year forever. And certainly not with three billion people trying to join that consumerist wasteland from India and China. The world economy is based on people buying mass quantities of worthless shite they don't need and don't really want. Marketing convinces them that they need or want it but most don't know they are being conditioned and programmed from birth to think that is normal. Just my two cents.
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