OK Boomer

[iego]

Liberal media/fake news trying to divide people with age discrimination.

-John

[Little Dutch]

It's just a way to classify an entire group of people and summarily dismiss them and their ideas. Is absolutely a decisive term.

[thedave1164]

Freaking hippies, became legislators, bureaucrats, lawyers and teachers.

They are dug in like ticks on a hound dog.

[DFBrews]

I deal with the grumpy old bastards at work all the time as Co workers and customers they don’t like change they hate computers and wish the shop and truck was run like it was 20 years ago. They are a general pain in the ass. I can’t wait to be the grumpy old bastard myself though means I have lived a long life

[FoxtArt]

I think it's about as valid as the reports that your children are going to die from halloween this year because somebody somewhere is going to hide a razor blade in candy. (If you're not aware, that's an urban legend, and there's no documented case of a kid dying, ever.)

I'm guessing someone said it, somewhere, some point in time. And the media is masturbating with it because it pisses older people off and gets them clicks, which is entirely all that matters. That doesn't make it a "real thing". It's just something that gets bullshit articles some clicks, and some t-shirts sold for a few "out" individuals who think they are hopping on a trend that doesn't actually exist.

[Gman]

Boomers were up to 1965. Gen X began in 1966.

If "OK Boomer" is the best answer they can come up with while they still live in mommy's basement, that doesn't mean much. The Millennials seem to be completely ignorant of who built the technology and infrastructure that they currently enjoy.

[def90]

Gen Z has generally been described as being more conservative than millenials and gen Y'ers.. I feel like the only place I have heard the "Boomer" quip is via the media and it is my feeling that it is not an authentic movement in any way.

[Scanker19]

OKlahoma Boomer Sooner!!!

[Madeinhb]

If I read it correctly, Eric P was saying Gen X'ers are typically "mid 40's" in age, not years of birth. But then again, I may have misunderstood.

As I've always understood it, I'm first year Gen X. Not something I was ever typically proud to admit.

Whoop whoop. I?m the tale end of X. Which I will take because I don?t want to be in the Millennials one


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

[Great-Kazoo]

OK Boomer.

From the NY Times:

?Ok boomer? has become Generation Z?s endlessly repeated retort to the problem of older people who just don?t get it, a rallying cry for millions of fed up kids. Teenagers use it to reply to cringey YouTube videos, Donald Trump tweets, and basically any person over 30 who says something condescending about young people ? and the issues that matter to them.

It seems that younger people think that they have a lock on the issues. Maybe but it looks like they have issues but no perspective and are driven by instant gratification without doing the work, part of group think politics. In some of the talk I have heard that the GenZ are like then protesters of the Vietnam war.

I was born in 1955, Boomers were born in the 1943 to 1946 era so I was like 10 years old during the Vietnam war protests and I remember seeing some of the action up close back then and hearing older, college age people discussing the war and the protests, I also remember the older people, parents and uncles that fought in WWII and Korea and their feelings, which were also against the continuation of the war. I has cousins that went to Vietnam and thankfully they all came back, each with their own form of mental damage.

I see the OK Boomer as another division within our country driven by the communist left.

Any thoughts? Please keep it civil.

Not sure where the NYT part ends and you respond. But

#1: wrong years for boomers

# 2: the protest were going on till early 70's. IIRC 1 of them at the Statue of liberty, 71ish

Putting one born in 55 @ 16, not 10. Just saying.

I'm a boomer and never heard OK, Boomer.


Now Ok. Computer. That i heard. And as much as i deplore radioheads politics. Ok Computer is a good album. Or CD as the millennials called them