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Dissecting the 'Okay Boomer' Meme

tacomancer said:
I doubt most millennials think they are unique in the sense that the older people don't share their priorities. That sort of push and pull is part of US culture.
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First of all..... I have no beef with any millennial's and I enjoy being around them. I have had mostly very positive interactions with the younger people in my lifetime through work and play . And from my own experiences, I can see that most millennial's get along just fine with the older people.

It's the political nerds that make more out of it than anyone else.
 
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jamesrodom said:
Boy, talk about the ability of social media to make a stupid, two-word meme go viral. Everybody's using "okay boomer" as a presumed insult from millennials directed to Baby Boomers.

My first reaction was: much ado about nothing. Younger people criticizing or ridiculing older people?? I'm going WAAAY out on a limb here: Yep, it's been known to happen before!

But then I heard a curious argument from a couple of Facebook 'friends' who happen to BE baby boomers, around my age. Turns out they're genuinely upset by this because they connect it to the legitimate issue of age-ism, specifically discrimination in employment based on age. These friends must work, are having trouble finding work, and see this as part of a pattern whereby younger people in human resource or other positions of authority may actually be reluctant to hire older workers.

Thoughts?
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The bias and animus is real, as is the bigotry of liberal progressive millennials.
 
RetiredUSN said:
Call me what ever you wish........ :2wave:

It's all good.
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I don't need your permission for anything, Boomey. Did you forget this? Boomers are bigtime hypocrites.

RetiredUSN said:
You are ate up with your own bigotry Ecofarm, so most of us don't pay any attention to your stupid crap.
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Now he wants to be all, "oh, you're calling me names and hurts so much!"

My gramps would never have pulled that pansy crap. Not all Boomers are the same.
 
ecofarm said:
I don't need your permission for anything, Boomey. Did you forget this? Boomers are bigtime hypocrites.




Now he wants to be all, "oh, you're calling me names and hurts so much!"

My gramps would never have pulled that pansy crap. Not all Boomers are the same.
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LOL

Your grampy should have spanked you more often.
 
RetiredUSN said:
First of all..... I have no beef with any millennial's and I enjoy being around them. I have had mostly very positive interactions with the younger people in my lifetime through work and play . And from my own experiences, I can see that most millennial's get along just fine with the older people.

It's the political nerds that make more out of it than anyone else.
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Yup, we nerds like to nerd out.

I asked my son about the ok boomer thing and he was like "you remember that show in the 70s with the yelling guy in the green chair? thats a boomer"

After some probing, it looks like he meant archie bunker.
 
tacomancer said:
Yup, we nerds like to nerd out.

I asked my son about the ok boomer thing and he was like "you remember that show in the 70s with the yelling guy in the green chair? thats a boomer"

After some probing, it looks like he meant archie bunker.
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Archie wasn't a Boomer. :)
 
ecofarm said:
Ignoring statistical fact for self benefit is typical Boomer.
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Trolling a little early for Saturday, wut?

I see you got a nibble.......
 
Rexedgar said:
Trolling a little early for Saturday, wut?

I see you got a nibble.......
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More like an example, if a tuna from the deep blue sea.
 
jamesrodom said:
Boy, talk about the ability of social media to make a stupid, two-word meme go viral. Everybody's using "okay boomer" as a presumed insult from millennials directed to Baby Boomers.

My first reaction was: much ado about nothing. Younger people criticizing or ridiculing older people?? I'm going WAAAY out on a limb here: Yep, it's been known to happen before!

But then I heard a curious argument from a couple of Facebook 'friends' who happen to BE baby boomers, around my age. Turns out they're genuinely upset by this because they connect it to the legitimate issue of age-ism, specifically discrimination in employment based on age. These friends must work, are having trouble finding work, and see this as part of a pattern whereby younger people in human resource or other positions of authority may actually be reluctant to hire older workers.

Thoughts?
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Sounds like the jokes about millennials being unable to find work after Boomers melted the economy were funnier to Boomers before they had to show up hat-in-hand asking millennials for work.
 
RetiredUSN said:
Archie wasn't a Boomer. :)
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everyone knows that, including my son, he was attempting to be relatable while overestimating my age (that show was on before I was born)

I asked for a modern example and he just shrugged and mentioned a few people in our family that would be considerably less useful for demonstration purposes on this forum. However, personality wise, they are close to that mentioned character.

But the point here is that a "boomer" is a caricature of a know nothing, bigoted has been, with no place in the world of today in the eyes of the youth (his view is anecdotal but pretty much is in line with other studies I've read)

Granted my son is GenZ, but attitudes are not too difference between those two generations.

also, he hates it when I say "ok zoomer" when he says something I think is stupid :lol:
 
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RetiredUSN said:
Everything is racist to you even when the conversation is not about racism. :lamo :2wave:

You are ate up with your own bigotry Ecofarm, so most of us don't pay any attention to your stupid crap.
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The poster has been well trained, and well indoctrinated.

Sadly, it's living proof of the damage that has been inflicted on new generations by our failed liberal education system, evidenced by the self centered, entitled nature of their kind.
 
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Greenbeard said:
Sounds like the jokes about millennials being unable to find work after Boomers melted the economy were funnier to Boomers before they had to show up hat-in-hand asking millennials for work.
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I can hardly wait for their kids to blame them for something or the other............
 
jamesrodom said:
I can hardly wait for their kids to blame them for something or the other............
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Overpopulation will be the issue of the day at that point I suspect.
 
ecofarm said:
The fact of the matter is that society gets less bigoted each generation and Boomers are, in fact, more bigoted than later generations. The line is stark and the rest of us have had enough of their hate. Good riddance.
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I certainly hope so.

However, as a boomer who grew up with the civil rights struggle all around me, I am hopeful, but skeptical.

I remember the night MLK was killed.

And I also remember how all the talking heads and pundits were proclaiming that we were in a “post racial society” after the election of Barack Obama.

Then came birtherism and Charlottesville.

The very generation that grew up with MLK and civil rights, echoed the memes of white resentment hate and fear the was so common in the late 60’s and throughout the 70’s.

Almost word for work in many cases.

That’s what concerns me.

Like I said, I’m hopeful. But a lifetime of experience, both first hand and in the press, make me less optimistic than I otherwise might have been.
 
TomFitz said:
I certainly hope so.

However, as a boomer who grew up with the civil rights struggle all around me, I am hopeful, but skeptical.

I remember the night MLK was killed.

And I also remember how all the talking heads and pundits were proclaiming that we were in a “post racial society” after the election of Barack Obama.

Then came birtherism and Charlottesville.

The very generation that grew up with MLK and civil rights, echoed the memes of white resentment hate and fear the was so common in the late 60’s and throughout the 70’s.

Almost word for work in many cases.

That’s what concerns me.

Like I said, I’m hopeful. But a lifetime of experience, both first hand and in the press, make me less optimistic than I otherwise might have been.
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Actually I agree with some of what you are saying. The boomers(I am one) of the 60's and 70's who helped change the world via civil rights, anti-war, and women's rights protests have now seem to have lost their way and many seem to want to go back to the 50's.

But comparing birther BS and Charlottesville to the assassinations of the 60's, lynching, etc. is, IMO, not a good comparison. As bad as things are now, and it is surprising how so many boomers seem to forgot the 60's, it's not as bad as it was in the 50's and 60's.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
Actually I agree with some of what you are saying. The boomers(I am one) of the 60's and 70's who helped change the world via civil rights, anti-war, and women's rights protests have now seem to have lost their way and many seem to want to go back to the 50's.

But comparing birther BS and Charlottesville to the assassinations of the 60's, lynching, etc. is, IMO, not a good comparison. As bad as things are now, and it is surprising how so many boomers seem to forgot the 60's, it's not as bad as it was in the 50's and 60's.
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Those were the seminal events of that time and movement. No, that has not repeated itself.....not yet. (and I think, not likely. i think the fever is breaking now).

None the less, Trump is running around sounding like a cross between Spiro Agnew and George Wallace, on a pretty regular basis.

Race baiting and white resentment are the foundations on which much of right wing media rests. Fox news, the AM talk radio shouters, and the blogs all play to it regularly.

I have seen and heard things in the last four years that I had not heard in thirty.
 
I call them Juvies, so whatev.
 
jamesrodom said:
Boy, talk about the ability of social media to make a stupid, two-word meme go viral. Everybody's using "okay boomer" as a presumed insult from millennials directed to Baby Boomers.

My first reaction was: much ado about nothing. Younger people criticizing or ridiculing older people?? I'm going WAAAY out on a limb here: Yep, it's been known to happen before!

But then I heard a curious argument from a couple of Facebook 'friends' who happen to BE baby boomers, around my age. Turns out they're genuinely upset by this because they connect it to the legitimate issue of age-ism, specifically discrimination in employment based on age. These friends must work, are having trouble finding work, and see this as part of a pattern whereby younger people in human resource or other positions of authority may actually be reluctant to hire older workers.

Thoughts?
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Those people need to grow a spine. Far too many people of all ages are looking for a safe space.
 
jamesrodom said:
Boy, talk about the ability of social media to make a stupid, two-word meme go viral. Everybody's using "okay boomer" as a presumed insult from millennials directed to Baby Boomers.

My first reaction was: much ado about nothing. Younger people criticizing or ridiculing older people?? I'm going WAAAY out on a limb here: Yep, it's been known to happen before!

But then I heard a curious argument from a couple of Facebook 'friends' who happen to BE baby boomers, around my age. Turns out they're genuinely upset by this because they connect it to the legitimate issue of age-ism, specifically discrimination in employment based on age. These friends must work, are having trouble finding work, and see this as part of a pattern whereby younger people in human resource or other positions of authority may actually be reluctant to hire older workers.

Thoughts?
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Ok Boomer is ok with me..
 
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