No, it’s not the equivalent of the N-word. Not even close. I have to wonder if this is a Boomer because unironically likening a sarcastic rejoinder to Boomers’ tendency to blame Millennials for everything bad to a horrible racial slur has to be the most Boomer thing ever.
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Replying to @gorskon
Rude, yes. Ageist, yes. An unwarranted slur against mature people who, in many cases, are supporting them, yes. The equivalent of the n-word? A thousand times no.
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Replying to @OtterMD37 @gorskon
Here’s the question, is it ageist? It’s not objecting to age itself - it isn’t applied to older living Silent generation or Greatest. In application it seems to be targeting an attitude of self-assured ignorance, the belief one is superior because you enjoyed unfair advantage.
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @gorskon
I see the hyperbolic reaction to it as extremely similar to white fragility. A group that has enjoyed advantages and deserves criticism for historical behavior being overly sensitive to critique, rather than honestly assessing their historic role and its effects on others.
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @gorskon
I've struggled w/my reaction. I hate everything about this, because I know it's deserved & I know being defensive & feeling unjustly attacked only validates some of what drove it in the first place. Mostly I think it's a predictable divide. People get old & entrenched in their BS
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I am curious as to your statement that most contributions should be credited to other generations. We got royally fucked by previous generations whom I see as being too lightly criticized in this whole debate.
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Replying to @MHPoison1 @gorskon
Well. I have seen many a boomer say they are responsible for civil rights - a glaring theft of the work of the previous generation. Also music (their music is just black music popularized for white audience) and women’s lib (all the leaders were silents).
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @MHPoison1
I like to point out that the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, when the very oldest Boomers were just turning 18 and the vast majority were still children. Most of the marching and dying was done by the previous generations.
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Boomers did join in later, but the heaviest lifting and most dangerous work were done by the generation before them.
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