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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 231 points 9 months ago

Do people really not remember that it was also boomers protesting vietnam and working in the civil rights movement? Or that plenty of people born after that voted for trump, and will again?

Three intergenerational fake fight is dumb, and it prevents any real attempt at unification to fight against a real enemy: fascism.

Fucking idiots, the whole fucking human race.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Hating on boomers has been popular on the internet for over a decade now.

Before that, young millenials and gen z wouldn’t even know what the term boomer referred to.

And now they just use it to mean anyone who is older than them. 40 year olds are boomers to them.

[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 13 points 9 months ago

Boomer was definitely a term in the 80s at least... I was there, Gandalf.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Oh “baby boomer” has been a term for a long time. Probably since history and social sciences started categorizing generations. My point is young people on the internet were not using it as a blanket term for anyone over 30 or 40 years old.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 months ago

No they were using it to denote a generation of people born after WW2 who have had everything given to them in life and destroyed it afterwards so nobody could benefit from it anymore.

Basically the selfishness of the Me-generation

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Yes, that generation is referred to as the baby boomers.

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