Moved this here because I watched the rest of the video and he gets shitty at the end.
How do we get people like Norm to stop being credulous about flawed science and fucking bigotry.
His larger point with the video is more interesting but it gets lost in anti-trans shit at the end
There are generally two types of boomer left i have come across.
Those who were radicalized decades earlier (some were already staunch opposer of US imperialism going back to the Vietnam war) and saw their workers movement being dismantled from the inside by weaponized liberal identity politics post-USSR collapse, these boomers are far more likely to harbor anti-trans/LGBT sentiment.
Then there the boomers who were radicalized during Bernie/Trump era and shifted leftward toward Lenin/Stalin as the years went by (a small proportion but they do exist), these boomers are generally supportive of LGBT and various other progressive rights.
At least this is my experience with them.
I think there’s some truth to this but the overall impression I get is that there’s enough exceptions that it doesn’t work as a general rule. A lot of Gen Z guys with manosphere type thoughts also picked up many leftist ideas and these are the prime demographics for the ACP, Jimmy Dore, Russell Brand, etc. And a lot of older people who have been in leftist orgs for decades know a lot of minorities and are familiar with their struggle so it’s harder for them to fall into vulgar materialism and dismissive attitudes toward minorities.
edit: oops, ignore the first part, you were only talking about boomer leftists.
I should have made it clear that I was talking about American boomers who were radicalized and ended up reading Marx and Lenin (they do exist lol, just not many of them), so not just any boomer that consume online leftist media. Maybe I should have said boomer Marxists/communists instead.