Linkedin inbox of the week - Ok boomer

[malvolio]

Well it's not unfounded generalisations...

A boomer isn't short for baby boomer. A boomer is someone who denies that baby boomers have robbed future generations, it's a narcissistic arrogance.

No it means, or rather meant the baby boomer generation, those now between 55 and 75. It since mutated to mean "older than us" for the current teens and 20s. It doesn't now extend to its original set who are simply the decrepit wrinklies (like me) quietly drooling in our care home.

Of course the teens of today are so poorly educated and insular their opinion can safely be ignored.

[NotAllThere]

For what? Allowing them on social media?

For teaching them that this kind of comment

Chill out boomer, it was a joke.

is in anyway acceptable.

Mind you, my kids have never used such expressions. I'm the generation after boomers and my parents the one before.

A friend of mine was very upset when she found antisemitic graffiti in her home town. It made here feel that the whole rich complexity of her identity had been reduced to just one single facet - she's Jewish. Dismissive epithets like "okay boomer" or "snowflake millenial" are not anywhere nearly as bad, but reducing anyone to a single aspect of their being is really quite a nasty thing to do.

[NotAllThere]

No it means, or rather meant the baby boomer generation, those now between 55 and 75. It since mutated to mean "older than us" for the current teens and 20s.

And DrewG and others with chips on their shoulders.

[DrewG]

And DrewG and others with chips on their shoulders.

I don't believe that I have been treated unfairly in the past.

[Paralytic]

And DrewG and others with chips on their shoulders.

It's quite clever what the boomers have done - made themselves the bogey man to a group so that that group spend so much time and energy being the victim, they don't have the inclination to realise that they could actually change things if they were so minded. Moaning on tik-tok about house prices is much easier.

It's all a bit lazy and cliched for a generation (or two) that consider themselves the most progressive ever.

[vetran]

It's quite clever what the boomers have done - made themselves the bogey man to a group so that that group spend so much time and energy being the victim, they don't have the inclination to realise that they could actually change things if they were so minded. Moaning on tik-tok about house prices is much easier.

It's all a bit lazy and cliched for a generation (or two) that consider themselves the most progressive ever.

If you want to moan about house prices then make it clear to the political parties that unless they either reduce the number of people wanting homes or they start building enough homes to accommodate demand that they won't get your vote. There were enough houses about when I bought my first one! Arguing against mass population growth meant I was accused of racism by the idealistic youngsters so stuff you, I'm alright Jack!

[Uncle Albert]

No it means, or rather meant the baby boomer generation, those now between 55 and 75. It since mutated to mean "older than us" for the current teens and 20s. It doesn't now extend to its original set who are simply the decrepit wrinklies (like me) quietly drooling in our care home.

Of course the teens of today are so poorly educated and insular their opinion can safely be ignored.

They're a bit older:

Gen Z	1997 – 2012	11 – 26
Millennials	1981 – 1996	27 – 42
Gen X	1965 – 1980	43 – 58
Boomers II (a/k/a Generation Jones)*	1955 – 1964	59 – 68
Boomers I*	1946 – 1954	69 – 77
Post War	1928 – 1945	78 – 95
WWII	1922 – 1927	96 – 101

[Eirikur]

How is a volunteer day a benefit?

[malvolio]

How is a volunteer day a benefit?

You get paid for taking a day off to volunteer for something useful.

[JustKeepSwimming]

You get paid for taking a day off to volunteer for something useful.

Work in a foodbank to learn your place about what happens if you try and rock the boat with all this 'inflation pay rise' tulip, you plebs.