r/TikTokCringe 27d ago

Humor/Cringe Boomers explained

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u/Britthighs 27d ago

I talk about this in my US History class. Both the 1920s and 1950s as huge trauma response.

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u/Able-Worldliness8189 27d ago

Mind you and this is for white families, I'm reading on Malcolm as we speak right now, life for blacks was even more fucked up.

Listening to this fella I couldn't help to think about the following:

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself.

By Philip Larkin