I think it’s the difference between punching down and punching up. Boomers in general have far more money and power than the people using the term. So complaining that it’s ageist, and comparing it to a homophobic slur will get you about as much traction as white people being offended by cracker, and comparing it to slurs used against African Americans.
a mindset from a different time has little to do with age and more to do with the environment they grew up in. If a baby boomer time traveled from when they were 20 to now they would still be a boomer.
I’m familiar with the argument. And yet it is an age descriptor used as a pejorative. But no one cares because its just old people, right?
Well, a word can have multiple meanings
So if someone called a gay person f-slur, its okay because words have different meanings. Got it.
Oh boy, are you intentionally dense?
Yep, totally the same thing, a blanket word for obtuse close minded people and a sexual slur
Now you get it. A slur doesn’t become not a slur just because it has other meanings
e.g, evaluate this hypothetical statement by fictional commenter Chad Dudebro:
It ain’t the same level of offensive, but “boomer” is obviously an agist slur. Its just that no one cares because its okay to hate old people.
I think it’s the difference between punching down and punching up. Boomers in general have far more money and power than the people using the term. So complaining that it’s ageist, and comparing it to a homophobic slur will get you about as much traction as white people being offended by cracker, and comparing it to slurs used against African Americans.
Exactly this.
Don’t be absurd, the Greatest Generation was awesome.
It’s their kids that suck.
a mindset from a different time has little to do with age and more to do with the environment they grew up in. If a baby boomer time traveled from when they were 20 to now they would still be a boomer.
Well, maybe “old people” should have stopped fucking everything up for everyone about 50 years ago. Fuck em