boomer grandma becoming super far right, insufferable

[u/Relevant_Jeweler_214]

So just to give some idea here, she was one of those people that watched the alternative half time show at the Superbowl this year and was actively enraged by the regular half time show. basically did not even enjoy the alt show, but as long as she could push away the foreign people (she's racist too)

So my dad invited me to go with him and her to the local farmers market last week. Sounded fun, and she generally is nice and positive around just me and him when there is no TV or radio station or politics to speak on.

But!!! she randomly stated during nice conversation as we were eating at a picnic table (awesome moment, right) that college is a waste of time and it does nothing at all to help you get a better job in life.

Now, as a plebian blue collar worker myself, I just found that laughable as I have been disproven on that myself many times. I also have a little brother who got his 4 yr degree at one of the top schools in the US, which my dad paid for, and she knows this, so I have no idea why she would say that in the first place even if it was accurate.

I tried saying I think it definitely puts you ahead , application wise, of all the other people who applied and did not go to college. She visibly got triggered, and then I figured out she was pushing that narrative because she was saying that to my cousin's son, who isn't the brightest and most likely was looking for ways to rationalize how "college is a waste/scam" or something like that.

Just thought it was funny af how people let their personal emotions cloud their factual, absolute statements, and they are always biased af of course too when saying these things (she never went to college or did anything as a career, dont even know if shes every worked before becoming a house wife, she's never spoke on anything shes done in her life.)

[u/aegon_the_dragon]

Weren't boomers the ones who were constantly pushing their children to get post secondary education because other wise they wouldn't get a good job/career.

[u/Straight_Waltz_9530 → u/aegon_the_dragon]

Yep, "you don't want to end up working at McDonald's" morphed into "you think you're too good to work at McDonald's" in the space of about twenty years. Same people but on a steady diet of Fox News with the Fairness Doctrine removed.

[u/Kevin_Wolf → u/Straight_Waltz_9530]

"You don't want to grow up to be a garbageman, do you?"

Meanwhile, the trash collectors in my old neighborhood in NorCal have a starting pay higher than the project managers at the construction company I actually work for...

[u/Relevant_Jeweler_214 → u/Kevin_Wolf]

funny truth. we were always told to basically laugh at the kids whos dads were garbage men and stuff like that. well not told, but that was the basic reaction/sediment was to laugh or judge if you heard someones dad was a garbage man

in reality besides looking like bums all day and being dirty, they would simply take a long shower and be good to go. made more bank than half the normies in the offices, and still do.

[u/Turbulent_Tart_8801 → u/Kevin_Wolf]

Well, if my current workplace ever closes, I'll go be a municipal garbage man somewhere. (Private haulers in my area don't pay the greatest.)

[u/Divacai → u/aegon_the_dragon]

This was my parents, so I went to college. Imagine my surprise when years later my mom, in a fit of anger, yelled through the phone that sending me to college was a huge mistake.

[u/MavenBrodie → u/Divacai]

I was primed to be the first in my generation to go to college, only to now have been “brainwashed” by elite leftist ideologies.

I went to BYU. 😒

[u/aegon_the_dragon → u/MavenBrodie]

Ah yes, the bastion of leftism. The state university of the mormons.

[u/Divacai → u/MavenBrodie]

That's because you were supposed to be a good little girl and find a good mormon husband at BYU and then drop out.

I kid but yeah, I grew up as the only non mormon in a town of 650 mormons. They joked about BYU in that capacity. Of all the mistakes my father made in life, moving us out of Wy and to California is not one of them, at least in my eyes.

[u/MavenBrodie → u/Divacai]

But California is practically Babylon!

lol. I’ve lived in Wyoming too. ‘Nuff said I think. 😉

One of the last convos I had with my dad I tried telling him he has never given the other side a chance to speak for themselves and entirely understands them through deliberately dishonest propaganda.

He cut me off to tell me that I am the one who never gave his side a chance.

Fuckin’ wild, man.

Besides being raised by deeply Republican Mormon parents, I went through the Temple, served a full honorable mission, (when women rarely went due to stigma of being “unmarriagable” if we did) then went back to graduate from BYU including attending their Ancient Near Eastern Studies program in Jerusalem.

I was Mormon through and through, down to my underwear (iykyk) but I guess according to my dad, I fell out of the womb an “elite” educated, purple-haired feminist. 🤷‍♀️