The Generation Gap on DU is real

[ShazzieB]

443. Thanks for these.

I was aware that there have been threads at DU criticizing climate protests like these. I was and still am unconvinced that any DUers have called them terrorists, and that was what I (and I believe others) have questioned.

I didn’t see any examples of that in the thread you posted, but I see that one of them quotes extensively from an article about a German politician describing them that way. I think its possible the op saw that thread and the idea of climate activists being called terrorists got mixed up with their impressions of the general negativity and they forgot who actually called them that. That sort of thing has happened to me more than once, and I know I've avoided some howlers only by carefully double-checking what I'd read.

The op made some valid points, imo, but unfortunately they did it in a way that caused some of us oldsters feel attacked and respond accordingly, which caused the whole thread to get derailed. I'm sorry that happened; but I also understand why a lot of folks, including myself, reacted the way we did.

I feel like I've learned something from this. I hope a lot of us have, including the op.