One reason I resonate strongly with ok boomer, even though I don’t actually feel that way about boomers, is that I strongly approve of the tactic. At a personal level, I use it so much it’s my default conflicting protocol. Dismissive avoidant soft-bozobitting.
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Key feature is I approve of, and encourage, being treated this way as well. This is a symmetric transaction protocol. Golden Rule compliant.
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Interesting that Boomers get dismissed though the majority of wealth and political power is held by Boomers.
I thought about how Fight the Power, Fight the Man had a much different spirit and target than Ok, Boomer
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Only nominally. As they age more, their options will be limited by the agency of younger intermediaries.
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There's a flag on the field. Too many descriptions in the sentence. It's being reviewed with a Rosetta Stone.
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I see it slightly differently (and a lot more pessimistically).
To me the takeaway is: I don't care how you were raised, how tolerant your group claims to be -- someone WILL find an outgroup, a way to stigmatize it, a set of stereotypical insults.
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