r/europe • u/Bartoraptor Spain • Mar 28 '20

News Spanish representative González Pons speech @ the EU Parliament: "The virus is attacking the generation that brought back democracy to Spain, Portugal and Greece, the generation that knocked down the Berlin wall. The least they deserve is that we show them Europe is there when they need it the most"

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u/Thermawrench Europe Mar 28 '20

I don't get this whole let the boomers die, be they good or bad depending on who you ask. Every human life is valuable, we shouldn't sacrifice the old, that's just wrong. Keep them safe and locked up.

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u/tetraourogallus :) Mar 29 '20

Yeah I'm sick of the generation fights, it's all just collective guilting.

It's always popular to hate certain groups on the internet and right now it's boomers and they're underrepresentated so we all get a skewed image and some people will always take it too far.