Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's like how class warfare is only when the poor fight back.
Generations are not classes. They span classes.
That was a simile.
‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations
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#82The idea that climate change and financial inequality concerns are generational divided is ludicrous. To me this framing reeks as just another divisional front the promoters of identity politics, who btw are also not generational divided, would like to inflict on us all. P.S. I'm not Gen Z by a long shot and deeply concerned about climate change and financial inequality.
Look at politics today, though. The party that is speaking out vociferously against climate change and inequality is the Democratic party, whose voters are statistically much younger, more educated, more urban, less white, less religious, more female. Now look at the GOP, which handed out huge tax breaks to the rich/corporations, and who denies climate science...GOP voters (and the politicians themselves)_are older, whiter, more rural, more male, and much less likely to believe in climate change.
It's just simple demographic facts that Boomers are politically much, much more likely to not care about climate change and financial inequality. Yes, it sucks that older folks who do care are being painted with a broad brush, but that's the nature of quick and dirty articles.
Re: ‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations
#83What? The phrase itself is just a current meme, inspired by the recent boomer/zoomer memes.
It is partially an ironic revenge against the "are millenials killing the economy?" type sentiments, and more generally used to say that the target has an old fashioned and self absorbed worldview: resisting social change, blaming younger generations for societal issues or trivializing their problems. This is nothing new, the "crazy uncle/racist grandma at christmas dinner" is a very much a thing people already talked about years ago.
So the behaviour against the younger generation was already unfriendly (and has been so since forever [1]), and the only thing that has changed for the older generation is that someone says "okay" to them and proceeds to ignore them. That is hardly "the End of Friendly Generational Relations".
[1] https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-a...
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mmm there's that word again, "given."
Can't tell what point you're making, but when my brother left his job at Google our grandmother asked what that was going to do to his pension. As if companies paying pensions was still a thing. These people grew up when a factory job could support a family of four, and companies hired people with no experience and then paid actual benefits. Boomers benefited from very generous circumstances. To suggest they earned t…
My parents, I guess who were boomers, suffered from crushing debt, divorce, poverty, unstable work. Factory work killed two of my Grandfathers, COPD and asbestosis. But go on, tell us how Google ruined your Brother's future.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mmm there's that word again, "given."
The boomers also have a pretty strong sense of entitlement. Some would argue that millennial are entitled to feel "entitled".
> Some would argue that millennial are entitled to feel "entitled".
Some of us would argue that is a garbage mentality at the root of the problem.
I would sooner wish to emulate the "Greatest Generation" than the Boomers.
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#86Really? i thought i ended when everyone was talking about how millennials are ruining companies by not buying affordable products. Or saying millennials are poor because they like avocados. Or saying millennials are entitled for demanding a living wage.
> Really? i thought i ended when everyone was talking about how millennials are ruining companies by not buying affordable products. I think it's important to differentiate between "media-driven narrative" and real-world relations, though that line is a bit blurry. It seems the former often creates the latter. Right now I'm not sure that "Ok Boomer" is anything more than a meme.
People do take it too far, as usual.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Actually this phrase started around October 15th on TikTok. I highly doubt this. I've seen this phrase for months on both Twitter and Discord. Searching one discord server I'm in yields several instances going back to April. It was just a meme in the beginning. Perhaps evolved from 4chan's "30 year old boomer"
I've seen similar sentiments about Boomers on the fediverse (Mastodon/Pleroma/etc.) for the past year. Maybe the specific phrase "OK, Boomer," might be recent, but the sentiment has been there for a bit .. and it's always been trolling, like any generational call out is (and has been .. since the 50s .. nothing has changed and you can always sell magazines, papers and books by blaming the youth .. or the elderly .. o…
I appreciate the prior references but disagree this is fake viral TikTok bullshit.
Old Town Road was also around before it became a meme on TikTok, but it was undoubtedly what drove it to #1 on multiple categories on billboard.
I also disagree that no one cares. Otherwise the company wouldn’t be being investigated for national security issues and zuck talking about it in an all hands meeting.
TikTok is influencing art and culture. Regardless of the phrase’s use on discord or image boards, it’s emergence ok tt is important.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20756701/mark-zuckerberg-...
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#88Generational names have always been created by authors to sell books. Adam "Ruins Everything" Conover did a talk at a marking conference where he pulled up old copies of Time magazine talking about the entitled baby boomers from decades ago; almost identical to the same articles about every other generation. Generational titles were NEVER used to lift anyone up. They were used to sell books, sell newspapers/magazines…
The NYT has sections of serious news, and sections of ridiculous "trend" articles. The trend articles are easy to source, easy to write, and have a shot at making it to page 1 of HN. I tend not to read them, or at least not to believe them when I read them--Mithidratism from reading too many such articles long ago. But then I'm an old bitter boomer, so what do I know?
I wonder if they realize how much they are diluting their brand with this tabloid-esque garbage. The Gray Lady - how ridiculous.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Really? i thought i ended when everyone was talking about how millennials are ruining companies by not buying affordable products. I think it's important to differentiate between "media-driven narrative" and real-world relations, though that line is a bit blurry. It seems the former often creates the latter. Right now I'm not sure that "Ok Boomer" is anything more than a meme.
People do take it too far, as usual.
As always, the question is how many and to what degree.
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#90Really? i thought i ended when everyone was talking about how millennials are ruining companies by not buying affordable products. Or saying millennials are poor because they like avocados. Or saying millennials are entitled for demanding a living wage.
wait, what's the problem with avocados?
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