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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 9 Nov 2019

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      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.🙄🤦🏻‍♂️ https://twitter.com/journalistew/status/1192674677736517632 …

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    2. Otter, M.D.‏ @OtterMD37 9 Nov 2019
      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    3. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle 10 Nov 2019
      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    4. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle 10 Nov 2019
      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.

      3 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    5. Mary  😷 😭 🌶 🖤‏ @MHPoison1 10 Nov 2019
      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

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    6. Mary  😷 😭 🌶 🖤‏ @MHPoison1 10 Nov 2019
      Replying to @MHPoison1 @MarkHoofnagle @gorskon

      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.

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    7. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle 10 Nov 2019
      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).

      4 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
    8. Mary  😷 😭 🌶 🖤‏ @MHPoison1 10 Nov 2019
      Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @gorskon

      I guess taking credit for music never occurred to me! As for civil rights, no. As much as we trash 2nd wave feminism, it changed our lives. All silents? No. And we did stop that fucking war that took 58000 of our friends, & was foisted on us by the noble group before us.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    9. Mary  😷 😭 🌶 🖤‏ @MHPoison1 10 Nov 2019
      Replying to @MHPoison1 @MarkHoofnagle @gorskon

      The deification of the silent generation is another curious phenomenon to me. I cried when I visited the WWII memorial in DC the first time. The Korean memorial gutted me. Vietnam takes me to my knees. The endless war now. Any one soldier isn't more or less deserving of respect.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    10. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle 10 Nov 2019
      Replying to @MHPoison1 @gorskon

      Vietnam is a fascinating example - the divide affecting politics all the way through the Clinton and W era. The best thing about Obama was we could finally stop talking about war records. But then, I can not remember a time I’ve been alive now when we haven’t been at war.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 10 Nov 2019
      Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @MHPoison1

      We weren’t at war through most of the 1990s, although there were limited military actions that didn’t last long (e.g., Kosovo). Unfortunately, though, since 9/11 we’ve been in a continual state of war, the longest in our history.

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