Members of a generation share a sense of history, a storyline on which they can place the present day. They see a modern world ordered by the rights and freedoms they fought to enshrine in law, from civil rights in America to Charter rights in Canada. They encounter resistance and condescension to their smallest efforts toward social justice, especially in the main Boomer blind spots of transgender and Indigenous rights. It is one thing to mock a weak-kneed social justice warrior for saying words are violence and authority figures are too mean. The American Revolution, Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II, and the 2008 financial collapse are all separated by about 80 or 90 years.

Source: National Post December 28, 2019 15:11 UTC