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		lupusreal 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Post World War II Food Appeals to grandma weren't targetted at baby boomers; their grandmas are long dead already. The baby boomers are the grandmas the rhetoric referenced.

umanwizard 11 months ago [–]

I understand that. Regardless of who the rhetoric referenced, it was not propagated primarily by old people.

Just like arguments to “think of the children” are almost never made by children themselves.

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