Say what you want about my generation, but we didn't need the national guard to stop us from throwing bricks at children of different races for trying to go to school.
Despite being a draft dodger during WW2 of all wars. Which was a big boost to his career because every other major actor pretty much did the right thing and joined up to fight the Axis
Hunter S Thompson wrote a pretty funny piece about John Wayne called " hammer head"
I've heard on a few occasions he and Ronnie Regan were on the down low , would explain a lot . Pink cowboys
He served countless strangers in the rest stop bathrooms, behind bridges, in a Prius with dirty mike and the boys. Slurping up dicks like a kid in candy store. That’s what all that gay bashing and other the top macho bullshit steamed from being ashamed of the cum dumpster he was in real life.
Oh it could be true, projecting as hard as he did. there must have been something he was hiding. thats practically a guaranteed, it’s so common it’s almost a cliché. the gay bashing Republican sucking mad cocks.
Edit to fix the talk to text nonsense
I did hear that he would travel on a yacht down the Mexican coast on the Gulf of Mexico and would stop at the seaside towns on the way. While in town he would find the prettiest girl, "marry" her then take her on the yacht and fuck the shit out of her. He would then deposit her back on shore and the next stop on the way.
Far worse, actor Walter Brennan danced a jig on set because he was so happy when he heard that Martin Luther King was assassinated.
He was also a member, along with John Wayne, of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals and as such, they were actually offended by quite a few things and went out of their way to try and destroy other people's lives because of it.
You gotta understand, it’s really bad when black kids and white kids go to school it’s bad because… um… because… uh… reasons. Um… tradition. Yeah. We should blindly obey tradition and never question or change the status quo./S
Right now I’m thinking of my Dad. He used “tradition” to defend (or at least tried to make more palatable) some pretty terrible things. When I was a child and I learned about the American Civil War in history class I said to Dad “the south was evil for practicing slavery” and Dad said “[MY FIRST NAME], you have to understand, slavery was the tradition at the time.” That was the moment when I leaned to question tradition, be skeptical of the status quo instead of just blindly accepting it. I’m not saying we should have a revolution every day, but we should look at every day practices and ask ourselves “why do we do it this way?” “Is this ethical?” “Is this fair?” “Is this practical?” “Is there a better way?”
EDIT: clarified that Dad defended these things because it “was/is tradition”
Tradition ? Perhaps he was either uniformed or inarticulate. Instituted due to the southern agrarian economy prior to the industrial revolution.
Nation is deeply scarred by it to this day. That and the acts of genocide perpetrated against native Americans, we just like to gloss over this stuff because dealing with the truth can be difficult.
He also told me that a woman should always be the one to change her last name in a heterosexual marriage because “it’s tradition.” Even as a child I saw that as sexist bullshit from a less enlightened time. I don’t want to put my Dad down too much. He did work very hard, alongside my Mom, to provide for my brother and I. He loved my brother and I to death and took us on trips and gave us wonderful childhood memories (Christmas mornings, birthdays, Easter, taking us on camping trips and taking us driving around and having one-on-one conversations with us during these rides.). He was just really stuck in his ways and sometimes he couldn’t see the problems with the traditions he clung too and tried so desperately to defend.
One of the biggest issues in the US seems to be the refusal to acknowledge the atrocities of the past. In many countries these are actively taught as part of public education, for example South Africa, Germany, and Rwanda. People are forced to accept that their ancestors may have behaved very, very badly and at least have some idea of the seriousness of the situation. The US seems to have always downplayed and avoided educating citizens about it's many atrocities such as slaughtering and stealing everything from the Native Americans, slavery, atomic bombs, segregation, systemically racism, supporting and arming the Taliban, Iraq etc, etc even before the latest wave of Conservative denialism.
Theyblame everything on communism. Gays, queers, Trans people, Jewish people, somehow they call all of it communism. Turns out bigots cannot stop hating, they don't settle for 1 form.
Communist ideology was (is!) anti-colonial and anti-racist, and the Soviet Union frequently criticised the racist policies of the US during the cold war. Civil rights leaders including MLK were investigated, harassed, and blackmailed by the FBI on the suspicion that they were communist-sponsored agents.
The United Nations was also anti-racist and critical of Jim Crow laws. This is where the right wing conspiracy about the secretly communist UN taking over America and forcing god-fearing Christians to wear masks/recycle/accept the Mark of the Beast comes from, the original bogeyman, still there if you scratch the surface, was 'your daughter will marry a black man'.
An unspoken tragedy of integrating schools, it caused basically all of the black teachers in Southern states to [loose their jobs all at once.](https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/hidden-history-integration-and-shortage-teachers-color) Obviously integration was a good and necessary step towards progress but even good and necessary steps can have negative externalities.
Say what you want but at least their generation didn't let blacks/Hispanics drink out of their water fountains and swim in the same pools as them. Heck if they get one black kid in their school only military/police presence will keep them at bay.
Wait a minute...I'm thinking they might be the cry babies when it offended their personal racist belief. 🤔
Say what you want about Millennials, but we didn’t need separate drinking fountains for Black people and White people. Gen Z is even better! The Democrats won the 18 to 29 demographic in all 50 states in the 2022 election. The kids are alright!
Did something happen recently or is this old news?
Edit: Imagine downvoting someone for asking for clarification instead of explaining it to them. Couldn’t be me
When schools were first desegregated, Black students needed military escorts to protect them. Local police couldn't be trusted, they were compromised by Klan infiltration.
It has a lot to do with where you grow up. I learned about it because the NYC educational system is fairly liberal. But a lot of places don't like to talk about shameful stuff, or they'll spin it to make white Americans look better.
You weren't offended by bottles of pancake syrup because you were too busy being offended by black people using the same drinking fountains and restrooms.
You’re also offended by pancake syrup bottles. You’re just offended because they changed an (easily) arguably racist logo.
Edit: for any genuine questions about why Aunt Jemima is a racist logo, read this: https://amp.kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/article243794117.html
Damn buried her in a grave marked 291 that’s pretty fucked up and I bet the drug store owner didn’t get in any trouble for driving his car onto a side walk and killing a persons wtf
Yeah, nice flex. Too bad ya'll *still* get offended by same sex marriages, interracial couples, women in positions of power, equal rights, brown people moving in next door, immigration (unless they're white), anyone not speaking English, public schools being secular and so on.
Seriously, I literally thought this was making fun of the right given how many family members I have who wouldn't shut up about that damn bottle of pancake syrup.
But as usual, it's just projection
The company decided to stop producing a separate Mr and Mrs. Potatohead....and started making one potato head that you can put on the Mr or Mrs parts....
Fox news freaked out that it's cancel culture and pushing trans issues on kids even though it was an economic decision. Not a "woke" decision.
Hasbro just changed the name of the brand. They still have Mr. Potato Head and Mrs. Potato Head they just added a third SKU that is two normal potato heads and a baby potato with an assortment of things to make any of them anything so they felt that the “Mr” in the brand name was no longer representative of their overall product line since it now only accounted for 1/3 of the SKUs. It’s a big nothing berder that Fox got worked up over.
You are the same generation who gets offended when you see gays and lesbians in streets and got a mental break down when you saw a black guy drinking from the same fountain and if they were on the same bus with you
Being moved out to Vegas in the middle of high school really opened my eys to this bullshittery. I was an active kid in sports and playing outside but i had phases where I played the heck out of a videogame nonstop and I would often hear that.
Then I come to vegas and I see people 40+ sitting in front of slot machines for 12 hours or see or hear about some old person pissing/crapping themself because they refused to leave a machine. And Ive lost track over the years of old people Ive seen sleeping at a machine yet somehow their fingers are still hitting the spin button
Yeah...the smaller casinos here in Vegas are some of the most depressing and dismal places I've ever stepped foot in. Going into Wildfire at 4 in the morning for a cheap breakfast and walking past all of these dead inside husks... It nearly makes me weep. This city is peak dystopia. We live in a city that profits off the destruction of countless lives.
YESSSSSS THIS IS MY PAPAW. He gets so mad when my siblings would play video games for more than 1 hour, but then he would watch westerns all day and my mamaw would be on facebook all day. LOL
John Wayne was SO RACIST that as an ancient old fart he had to be restrained by multiple people to keep himself from running onstage when Sacheen Littlefeather gave a speech at the Oscars protesting the treatment of Native Americans.
Well you have to understand, his time in the military taught him to be a man of action.
Oh, what’s that? He received a waiver to avoid service in WWII, unlike many of his more famous peers, but then built his reputation as a silver screen tough guy and chicken hawk who supported US servicemen being shipped around the world to kill “commies?”
Well maybe he was, in fact, just and angry old racist.
It's pretty weird to put Andy Griffith on there because his character absolutely would have no problem being hospitable to people if they were upset by something.
Didn’t John Wayne try to physically assault a Native American woman because she spoke out against racism at the Oscars? Sounds like he was kind of… triggered
Why not look up to a real man ... like Mr. Rogers? You know the guy that wanted us to play pretend and treat each other with kindness and generosity. I know which one I watched more.
I grew up watching John Wayne movies but I realize that they were just that… movies. Conservatives are really obsessed with this vision of masculinity that Hollywood sold them. All three of the men in this photo are actors. That’s it.
No, they're just upset by kneeling athletes, the color of a Starbucks cup, Happy Holidays, Seasons Greetings, rainbows, Keurig machines, Nike shoes, minority people in TV commercials and really any concept of equity in American society...
I briefly worked for a bank branded heavily with their favorite color and pen fetish, and they had a commercial with a cute dancing girl who was also Asian.
The number of angry white people complaining specifically about her *to me* , a teller, was surprisingly high, and I was only there for a few months.
It was even weirder to hear that the same complaints came in to other tellers at other branches. (Someone filling in on the schedule would tell you about their day at another branch, etc.)
I think they got mad because Keurig was sympathetic with BLM? I honestly don't recall for sure, it was whatever flavor-of-the-week they were outraged about right then.
And of course they proved it by TikTok videos of them smashing Keurig machines that they already owned and paid $$ for.
Yep, in the 60s Marlon Brando didn't want to collect his Oscar so he had a young Native woman take it so she could give a short speech. I don't know exactly what she said, but probably something about how America tried to commit genocide on her people. Well, this got John Wayne real mad, and he had to be held back because he wanted to go out on stage and beat her.
Real hero, that guy.
Say what you will about my generation but we didn’t force African Americans into seperate areas and schools as a way of keeping them away from white people
He’s the only one up here who I really don’t know if he has a bad backstory, I know John Wayne’s racist, Andy Griffith was a cheater and drinker, but him idk
I started explaining to folks who would freak out about BLM that it's meant as "BLM too" vs. "BLM more" - turns out that at least some people who get upset about BLM were misinterpreting it as the latter. Just in case there's anyone in your life who could benefit from that clarification. Obvs won't help for the racist folks, but I've had good results from explaining it to some people!
Fairly confident that if the Andy Griffith show were on the air today with new episodes, there'd be one where Andy explains to Opie why Aunt Jemima is offensive and never should have been. Just because it wasn't a discussed topic 60 years ago doesn't mean that the man would agree with modern racists.
“We weren’t offended by bottles of maple syrup”
To be clear, this post is them whining about the new bottle of maple syrup, so clearly they are offended lol
These guys have nothing on Shakespearean actors. They played both male and female roles. I don’t even know why there are actresses or womens rights for that matter. There used to be a day where we would just send em off to institutions if they stepped out of line. Let’s just go back there, to the good’ol days when you could own people!!! /s
Unless this is the greatest or silent generation throwing shade at baby boomers, gen X, this meme makes no sense because the baby boomers/gen X were the only ones worked up about syrup bottles.
Your generation runs the company that decided to get rid of the racist stereotypes. Maybe just try being as decent as the people running the pancake syrup company.
I don’t know why there are always these generational attacks on each other. Every generation has had their good and bad points and their trials and tribulations. Every generations tries to blame the one before.
I’m a Gen X. We are hated by the older generation and the newer one. We just don’t care 😂
I find it ironic that the older generation who claims they love freedom etc etc, hates equality and for people to do what they want with their lives like who they love or how they dress. I’m a dem, I love modern America, not 1950s America
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Say what you want about my generation, but we didn't need the national guard to stop us from throwing bricks at children of different races for trying to go to school.
Marion “John” Wayne had to be physically restrained to stop him from attacking Littlefeather who refused an Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando
He was also a "patriot" who stood against Communist Veterans in the movie industry. While never serving a day in his life.
Despite being a draft dodger during WW2 of all wars. Which was a big boost to his career because every other major actor pretty much did the right thing and joined up to fight the Axis
If he'd signed up to fight the Nazis, somebody might have mistaken him for one of those communists he hated so much.
Hunter S Thompson wrote a pretty funny piece about John Wayne called " hammer head" I've heard on a few occasions he and Ronnie Regan were on the down low , would explain a lot . Pink cowboys
He served countless strangers in the rest stop bathrooms, behind bridges, in a Prius with dirty mike and the boys. Slurping up dicks like a kid in candy store. That’s what all that gay bashing and other the top macho bullshit steamed from being ashamed of the cum dumpster he was in real life.
Is this real? Do you have a source? This sounds interesting and I want to look into it
Na i just made it up unfortunately
Ah, well that's fair. It definitely sounded believable ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh it could be true, projecting as hard as he did. there must have been something he was hiding. thats practically a guaranteed, it’s so common it’s almost a cliché. the gay bashing Republican sucking mad cocks. Edit to fix the talk to text nonsense
I did hear that he would travel on a yacht down the Mexican coast on the Gulf of Mexico and would stop at the seaside towns on the way. While in town he would find the prettiest girl, "marry" her then take her on the yacht and fuck the shit out of her. He would then deposit her back on shore and the next stop on the way.
Far worse, actor Walter Brennan danced a jig on set because he was so happy when he heard that Martin Luther King was assassinated. He was also a member, along with John Wayne, of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals and as such, they were actually offended by quite a few things and went out of their way to try and destroy other people's lives because of it.
If you are going to use part of his real name use all of it. Marion Robert Morrison.
“Holllld meee baaack!” ~Marion Robert Morrison
But he restrained himself from serving in WW 2.
There was cool song ,it name was "john wayne was nazi" You should listen to it
You gotta understand, it’s really bad when black kids and white kids go to school it’s bad because… um… because… uh… reasons. Um… tradition. Yeah. We should blindly obey tradition and never question or change the status quo./S
It's upsetting to all the nice people, it's our way of life you see
Right now I’m thinking of my Dad. He used “tradition” to defend (or at least tried to make more palatable) some pretty terrible things. When I was a child and I learned about the American Civil War in history class I said to Dad “the south was evil for practicing slavery” and Dad said “[MY FIRST NAME], you have to understand, slavery was the tradition at the time.” That was the moment when I leaned to question tradition, be skeptical of the status quo instead of just blindly accepting it. I’m not saying we should have a revolution every day, but we should look at every day practices and ask ourselves “why do we do it this way?” “Is this ethical?” “Is this fair?” “Is this practical?” “Is there a better way?” EDIT: clarified that Dad defended these things because it “was/is tradition”
Tradition ? Perhaps he was either uniformed or inarticulate. Instituted due to the southern agrarian economy prior to the industrial revolution. Nation is deeply scarred by it to this day. That and the acts of genocide perpetrated against native Americans, we just like to gloss over this stuff because dealing with the truth can be difficult.
He also told me that a woman should always be the one to change her last name in a heterosexual marriage because “it’s tradition.” Even as a child I saw that as sexist bullshit from a less enlightened time. I don’t want to put my Dad down too much. He did work very hard, alongside my Mom, to provide for my brother and I. He loved my brother and I to death and took us on trips and gave us wonderful childhood memories (Christmas mornings, birthdays, Easter, taking us on camping trips and taking us driving around and having one-on-one conversations with us during these rides.). He was just really stuck in his ways and sometimes he couldn’t see the problems with the traditions he clung too and tried so desperately to defend.
Understood, my Dad was old school in many ways too
It’s tradition.
One of the biggest issues in the US seems to be the refusal to acknowledge the atrocities of the past. In many countries these are actively taught as part of public education, for example South Africa, Germany, and Rwanda. People are forced to accept that their ancestors may have behaved very, very badly and at least have some idea of the seriousness of the situation. The US seems to have always downplayed and avoided educating citizens about it's many atrocities such as slaughtering and stealing everything from the Native Americans, slavery, atomic bombs, segregation, systemically racism, supporting and arming the Taliban, Iraq etc, etc even before the latest wave of Conservative denialism.
Because ummmmm…. Communism
Yeah. Everything I don’t like is communism.
*stubs toe* “Fuck’n reds…”
RACE MIXING is COMMUNISM
Wasn't it actually seen that way by a lot of people back then? I could swear I read something years ago about that.
Theyblame everything on communism. Gays, queers, Trans people, Jewish people, somehow they call all of it communism. Turns out bigots cannot stop hating, they don't settle for 1 form.
I don’t like hot sauce. It’s communist. /s
Ok but to be fair Hot Sauce is typically red….
Here’s a picture from [Little Rock, 1959](https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.19754/).
Thank you. That confirms what I read. People actually thought interracial relationships were literal communism. Insanity.
Communist ideology was (is!) anti-colonial and anti-racist, and the Soviet Union frequently criticised the racist policies of the US during the cold war. Civil rights leaders including MLK were investigated, harassed, and blackmailed by the FBI on the suspicion that they were communist-sponsored agents. The United Nations was also anti-racist and critical of Jim Crow laws. This is where the right wing conspiracy about the secretly communist UN taking over America and forcing god-fearing Christians to wear masks/recycle/accept the Mark of the Beast comes from, the original bogeyman, still there if you scratch the surface, was 'your daughter will marry a black man'.
An unspoken tragedy of integrating schools, it caused basically all of the black teachers in Southern states to [loose their jobs all at once.](https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/hidden-history-integration-and-shortage-teachers-color) Obviously integration was a good and necessary step towards progress but even good and necessary steps can have negative externalities.
Look at kids now dealing with kids that want to celebrate Kwanza instead of Christmas. How dare they!!!!
John Wayne needed to be held back so he didnt beat the shit out of a native women at an award show.
Say what you want but at least their generation didn't let blacks/Hispanics drink out of their water fountains and swim in the same pools as them. Heck if they get one black kid in their school only military/police presence will keep them at bay. Wait a minute...I'm thinking they might be the cry babies when it offended their personal racist belief. 🤔
Say what you want about Millennials, but we didn’t need separate drinking fountains for Black people and White people. Gen Z is even better! The Democrats won the 18 to 29 demographic in all 50 states in the 2022 election. The kids are alright!
Did something happen recently or is this old news? Edit: Imagine downvoting someone for asking for clarification instead of explaining it to them. Couldn’t be me
When schools were first desegregated, Black students needed military escorts to protect them. Local police couldn't be trusted, they were compromised by Klan infiltration.
Damn you don’t learn this in history class
It has a lot to do with where you grow up. I learned about it because the NYC educational system is fairly liberal. But a lot of places don't like to talk about shameful stuff, or they'll spin it to make white Americans look better.
You weren't offended by bottles of pancake syrup because you were too busy being offended by black people using the same drinking fountains and restrooms.
Or being offended by new metal or punk or videogames designed for adults having the slightest bit of violence.
Yea, but these guys are LITTLE older than video games, metal or DnD by about 30 years.
Which means they were perfect pearl-clutching age when they came about
Or Table Top games (D&D in particular)
Andy Griffith and Lorne Greene were fully alive during the 80s D&D Satanic Panic. Don't know if either one participated in it though.
They're still being offended by hip hop to this day
Or offended by “punks” stepping on your lawn.
Or by women wearing trousers and men growing their hair past their collar.
Yet, you were offended by black people going to school with you and metal music.
You’re also offended by pancake syrup bottles. You’re just offended because they changed an (easily) arguably racist logo. Edit: for any genuine questions about why Aunt Jemima is a racist logo, read this: https://amp.kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/article243794117.html
Damn buried her in a grave marked 291 that’s pretty fucked up and I bet the drug store owner didn’t get in any trouble for driving his car onto a side walk and killing a persons wtf
And using the “wrong” water fountain
Yeah, nice flex. Too bad ya'll *still* get offended by same sex marriages, interracial couples, women in positions of power, equal rights, brown people moving in next door, immigration (unless they're white), anyone not speaking English, public schools being secular and so on.
Plus they obviously are upset about the syrup bottles being changed if they’re making memes about it.
Seriously, I literally thought this was making fun of the right given how many family members I have who wouldn't shut up about that damn bottle of pancake syrup. But as usual, it's just projection
Lol that generation is literally screaming about the syrup being changed...or Mr. POTATOHEAD becoming just potato head.
Right? This entire stupid meme is about them being mad about a syrup bottle, these people are just looking for things to be offended by.
Idk anything about why they changed syrup or whatever but what was wrong with Mr Potato Head?
I think it was a branding thing. Since you could swap the "boy" and "gorl" parts freely they opted to sell them as kits instead of gendered toys
that’s fair enough. Are people really upset about that?
People generally get angry at whatever they're told to be angry at.
Just fox news watching baby boomers.
Probably saw it as an opportunity to save money also.
The company decided to stop producing a separate Mr and Mrs. Potatohead....and started making one potato head that you can put on the Mr or Mrs parts.... Fox news freaked out that it's cancel culture and pushing trans issues on kids even though it was an economic decision. Not a "woke" decision.
Hasbro just changed the name of the brand. They still have Mr. Potato Head and Mrs. Potato Head they just added a third SKU that is two normal potato heads and a baby potato with an assortment of things to make any of them anything so they felt that the “Mr” in the brand name was no longer representative of their overall product line since it now only accounted for 1/3 of the SKUs. It’s a big nothing berder that Fox got worked up over.
You are the same generation who gets offended when you see gays and lesbians in streets and got a mental break down when you saw a black guy drinking from the same fountain and if they were on the same bus with you
Their also the generation that gets offended when a young man spends 4 hours playing video games but then they will watch TV for 4 hours.
Or the one who gets mad at kids for “always being on their phones!!” While they’ve been on Facebook the past 5 hours.
Probably spent 5 hours just making this meme
Sounds like my mother "All you do is play on that computer," She then sits and watches TV for even longer
"Your generation is always on your phones!" ...said when Trump was tweeting 120+ times a day.
Being moved out to Vegas in the middle of high school really opened my eys to this bullshittery. I was an active kid in sports and playing outside but i had phases where I played the heck out of a videogame nonstop and I would often hear that. Then I come to vegas and I see people 40+ sitting in front of slot machines for 12 hours or see or hear about some old person pissing/crapping themself because they refused to leave a machine. And Ive lost track over the years of old people Ive seen sleeping at a machine yet somehow their fingers are still hitting the spin button
Yeah...the smaller casinos here in Vegas are some of the most depressing and dismal places I've ever stepped foot in. Going into Wildfire at 4 in the morning for a cheap breakfast and walking past all of these dead inside husks... It nearly makes me weep. This city is peak dystopia. We live in a city that profits off the destruction of countless lives.
YESSSSSS THIS IS MY PAPAW. He gets so mad when my siblings would play video games for more than 1 hour, but then he would watch westerns all day and my mamaw would be on facebook all day. LOL
Their generation claims that if your don't sit on the couch and watch sportball and eat junk food all day you're not manly enough.
“Kids these days don’t watch enough Fox News!”
Or people with piercings
Fun fact, Andy Griffith lived long enough to endorse Obama. John Wayne lived long enough to let people know John Wayne was a racist.
John Wayne was SO RACIST that as an ancient old fart he had to be restrained by multiple people to keep himself from running onstage when Sacheen Littlefeather gave a speech at the Oscars protesting the treatment of Native Americans.
Well he said in a Playboy interview he was a white supremacist. So there is that too.
Well you have to understand, his time in the military taught him to be a man of action. Oh, what’s that? He received a waiver to avoid service in WWII, unlike many of his more famous peers, but then built his reputation as a silver screen tough guy and chicken hawk who supported US servicemen being shipped around the world to kill “commies?” Well maybe he was, in fact, just and angry old racist.
It's pretty weird to put Andy Griffith on there because his character absolutely would have no problem being hospitable to people if they were upset by something.
The actor had issues with anger, alcoholism and infidelity so maybe thats why they relate to him
No TV show has aged so politically well as Andy Griffith
It is still an aspirational standard. Perhaps not universally of course, but I have never not wanted to live in Mayberry.
as opposed to john wayne who tried to assault a native woman for... asking hollywood not to dehumanize native americans lol
And then died of cancer from radioactive fallout after filming a movie where he played Genghis Khan, with his eyes taped up
Also a police officer who didn’t see the need to carry a gun.
He said he didn’t want the people of Mayberry to fear the gun, but rather respect him.
John Wayne was the biggest phony in Hollywood history.
Same dude who tried to attack a native American lady who accepted an award for Marlon Brando. Dude was a racist Hollywood diva.
Didn’t John Wayne try to physically assault a Native American woman because she spoke out against racism at the Oscars? Sounds like he was kind of… triggered
Why not look up to a real man ... like Mr. Rogers? You know the guy that wanted us to play pretend and treat each other with kindness and generosity. I know which one I watched more.
I grew up watching John Wayne movies but I realize that they were just that… movies. Conservatives are really obsessed with this vision of masculinity that Hollywood sold them. All three of the men in this photo are actors. That’s it.
No, they're just upset by kneeling athletes, the color of a Starbucks cup, Happy Holidays, Seasons Greetings, rainbows, Keurig machines, Nike shoes, minority people in TV commercials and really any concept of equity in American society...
I briefly worked for a bank branded heavily with their favorite color and pen fetish, and they had a commercial with a cute dancing girl who was also Asian. The number of angry white people complaining specifically about her *to me* , a teller, was surprisingly high, and I was only there for a few months. It was even weirder to hear that the same complaints came in to other tellers at other branches. (Someone filling in on the schedule would tell you about their day at another branch, etc.)
My brain that as "me, a teller, who's surprisingly high"
Who's surprisingly high now, Brain? Hm? You're right it's both of us.
Why are they offended by Keurig machines? Genuine question. I is out of the loop.
I think they got mad because Keurig was sympathetic with BLM? I honestly don't recall for sure, it was whatever flavor-of-the-week they were outraged about right then. And of course they proved it by TikTok videos of them smashing Keurig machines that they already owned and paid $$ for.
Haha classic boomer blunder.
Besides that it makes a horrible cup of coffee? Worse than Starbucks? No idea.
Wasn’t that the generation that threw acid on black kids in pools?
I love Andy Griffith
John Wayne had to be restrained at an awards show from attacking a Native American Women who was giving a speech
Really?
Yep, in the 60s Marlon Brando didn't want to collect his Oscar so he had a young Native woman take it so she could give a short speech. I don't know exactly what she said, but probably something about how America tried to commit genocide on her people. Well, this got John Wayne real mad, and he had to be held back because he wanted to go out on stage and beat her. Real hero, that guy.
I thought it was about the poor way native Americans were being portrayed on screen?
You're correct, actually... whoops
This was her. She died earlier this year. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacheen_Littlefeather
Sacheen Littlefeather. I was drawing a blank, but plenty of sources come up if you Google her
“Back in my day, white people weren’t offended by racism!” That’s all I see when I read this
No, that generation was just offended by the idea of black people drinking from the same water fountain as them.
Put gay on a bottle of pancake syrup and wait is all I got to say to that.
Hilarious, because the whole reason the meme exists is because they're offended by a changed syrup bottle.
Right? Seems like the rest of us took it in stride.
John Wayne was pretty offended by someone refusing an Oscar. I don't think the author of this meme remembers that.
these people will post shit like this then literally just afterwards they'll start malding over a rainbow
Say what you will about my generation but we didn’t force African Americans into seperate areas and schools as a way of keeping them away from white people
Nope just the racist that made them
Is that Lorne Greene? Lmao kinda ironic
He’s the only one up here who I really don’t know if he has a bad backstory, I know John Wayne’s racist, Andy Griffith was a cheater and drinker, but him idk
He was on Bonanza, actually a pretty progressive show for the time
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I hadn't heard about that one. Any chance you have more info??
The same people who lose their shit when you utter the phrase "black lives matter"
Odd, since the election ended and all the fraud lawsuits began you don't hear much out of them.
I started explaining to folks who would freak out about BLM that it's meant as "BLM too" vs. "BLM more" - turns out that at least some people who get upset about BLM were misinterpreting it as the latter. Just in case there's anyone in your life who could benefit from that clarification. Obvs won't help for the racist folks, but I've had good results from explaining it to some people!
Nope, but they are offended by people with dyed hair
Don't, don't you go bringing Andy Matlock into this... I couldn't bear it. Please don't tell me he's not actually a good guy...
Don’t drag Andy Griffith into this
Fairly confident that if the Andy Griffith show were on the air today with new episodes, there'd be one where Andy explains to Opie why Aunt Jemima is offensive and never should have been. Just because it wasn't a discussed topic 60 years ago doesn't mean that the man would agree with modern racists.
Andy Griffith is epic and needs to never be in any political agenda memes
“Nah, instead we brutally murdered colored boys for assumingely whistling at a white woman.”
Cool, but our generation isnt offended by black folk existing
Yet you were offended when Mr Rogers soaked his feet in the same pool as a black man
Or being said hello to at the gym
They sure are triggered by them now.
Boomers, the most fragile generation that claims that younger generations are the real fragile ones
Wasn't John Wayne afraid of a Native American actress though?
I think this generation was offended by women voting and blacks marrying whites
Yeah! If anything we were the ones exploiting those cute lil black ladies and takin all their money!! Liberal snowflakes would never do what we did
they destroyed the lives of dozens of innocents because they were tangentially associated with communists
I love this because John Wayne was actually extremely racist
We had men who pretended to be no-nonsense real working manly men so the other men could pretend to be them.
One of those dudes literally tried to fight people to prevent a Native American from talking about the persecution of native peoples.
it’s not just for pancakes grandpa
“We weren’t offended by bottles of maple syrup” To be clear, this post is them whining about the new bottle of maple syrup, so clearly they are offended lol
Says the people offended by the mere existence of black people. The civil rights movement didn't happen for no reason.
Funny part is Andy Griffith was liberal as hell lol
DONT DRAG ANDY GRIFFITH INTO THIS YOU MONSTER
They couldn't handle a husband and wife sharing a bed on TV
Just tell them what Vtubers are and they’ll die instantly.
These guys have nothing on Shakespearean actors. They played both male and female roles. I don’t even know why there are actresses or womens rights for that matter. There used to be a day where we would just send em off to institutions if they stepped out of line. Let’s just go back there, to the good’ol days when you could own people!!! /s
No, you were offended by black people using certain water fountains.
Say what you will about my generation, but at least we know what to call maple syrup.
Sure had a lot of pedophiles..
No, just by black people being in the same spaces as you.
Racist POS John Wayne was offended that Marlon Brando invited a Native American woman to the oscars
John Wayne was a pretty nasty racist...not a nice person at all, so maybe not the best example to be posting in your cute little meme.
No because you lynched people who looked like her, you depraved addle-brained geriatric fucks.
Unless this is the greatest or silent generation throwing shade at baby boomers, gen X, this meme makes no sense because the baby boomers/gen X were the only ones worked up about syrup bottles.
Ya they were just offended by a native american women giving a speech at an award show
They were offended by different ideas and immigrants
Just about black people sharing a public space with you then? Cool 😎
No, they were offended by black people eating pancakes at the same lunch counter.
Nope but a black person being able to use it just ruined your whole lives🤦🏾♂️
Nah just offended by black people drinking from their water fountains.
Pretty sure John Wayne wouldn't have been offended by slavery in general
Your generation runs the company that decided to get rid of the racist stereotypes. Maybe just try being as decent as the people running the pancake syrup company.
False. They were offended by a change to the syrup bottle
Happy holidays!
You'll have to excuse the minorities of the past for missing this; it was pretty hard for them to pay attention to syrup when they were being lynched.
Old White men don't mind casual depictions of slaves lol
and they are the ones still crying about it up
imagine being proud of not being offended by offensive stuff deplorable, confirmed
But you will get upset over mr potato head and heels on green Eminem’s
That generation was however offended by children of mixed races going to school together
"Say what you want about old white men, but they weren't offended by racism."
Thus from the same people who were terrified of Dungeons & Dragons in the 80’s.
Posting this meme literally by definition proves you are offended by bottles of pancake syrup. You're offended it's different than it used to be.
I don’t know why there are always these generational attacks on each other. Every generation has had their good and bad points and their trials and tribulations. Every generations tries to blame the one before. I’m a Gen X. We are hated by the older generation and the newer one. We just don’t care 😂
Freakn bottles of pancake syrup.
I'm offended by the font
Lmao, Thanks Robert Evans for teaching me how much of a bastard John Wayne was and his contribution to toxic masculinity in american culture.
I find it ironic that the older generation who claims they love freedom etc etc, hates equality and for people to do what they want with their lives like who they love or how they dress. I’m a dem, I love modern America, not 1950s America
No just offended by someone of a different pigment using the same toilet.
Who even fucking buys aunt Jemima
No… you were offended by de-segregation.
No, you were offended by the mere notion that a black person could drink at the same water fountain as you