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#OkBoomer Vs. #OkMillennial: Workplace Nightmare, Or Just A Meme?
NPR ^ | 11/18/2019 | YUKI NOGUCHI

Posted on 11/18/2019 8:46:20 AM PST by TomServo

Sophie Vershbow has seen her share of "OK, boomer" memes in recent weeks. The phrase that's suddenly everywhere is meant to convey a fundamental disconnect between younger generations and baby boomers who cling to outdated, off-base ideas.

To Vershbow, a 30-year-old social media manager, the sentiment behind the memes is this: "I think it's a dismissive, 'OK, whatever you say.' "

Case in point: 25-year-old New Zealand lawmaker Chloe Swarbrick recently hurled the "OK, boomer" phrase at older colleagues heckling her during her speech in support of a climate change bill.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chloeswarbrick; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; newzealand
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1 posted on 11/18/2019 8:46:20 AM PST by TomServo
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To: TomServo

As a Generation Xer just sitting back and enjoying the carnage.


2 posted on 11/18/2019 8:48:23 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

lol...


3 posted on 11/18/2019 8:49:03 AM PST by TomServo
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To: TomServo
baby boomers who cling to outdated, off-base ideas.

Ouch that must hurt Boomers who think it is always 1968.

4 posted on 11/18/2019 8:50:36 AM PST by C19fan
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To: TomServo

I like, #Ok commie


5 posted on 11/18/2019 8:51:46 AM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: C19fan

‘68 was a rough year, with a glorious end. I just wish it were the entire ‘60’s all over again. It was wild.


6 posted on 11/18/2019 8:52:43 AM PST by TomServo
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To: C19fan

I have a different point of view. “Okay boomer” is a different way of demeaning older people who might have memories of the days before political correctness existed. It’s another way of marginalizing the teaching of inter- generational history. Some of us boomers are Reagan and Jesse Helms guys.


7 posted on 11/18/2019 8:53:05 AM PST by Luke21
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To: TomServo

The day will come where millennials will have to figure out how to eat their smartphones to survive. Everything they think to be so important is ephemeral, frivolous, and irrelevant to sustaining life. Let’s see if they can live on selfies.


8 posted on 11/18/2019 8:53:36 AM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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To: TomServo

#OkCommie


9 posted on 11/18/2019 8:54:19 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: C19fan

#NeverTrustAnyoneOverThirty


10 posted on 11/18/2019 8:54:26 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: TomServo

OK boomer is millennial speak for f*ck you boomer.


11 posted on 11/18/2019 8:58:00 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: TomServo
#OkBoomer

#OkSooner

12 posted on 11/18/2019 9:00:22 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TomServo

Once we old white guys croak the Millennial scum will get the society they’ve been clamoring for. Deprivation, violence, sorrow and tyranny are coming their way hard.

But not soon enough.

How about this answer: Not okay, death soon, nothing to lose. Are you okay? Are you okay, right now?

Then they become fearful. Hate the enemy. Make them regret an weep.


13 posted on 11/18/2019 9:01:23 AM PST by coaster123 (Distrust everyone under fifty.)
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To: noiseman
The day will come where millennials will have to figure out how to eat their smartphones to survive.

Seriously. If an enemy attack were to take down the internet for any length of time these people would literally starve.


14 posted on 11/18/2019 9:01:30 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: TomServo

Apparently someone didn’t get a participation trophy today.


15 posted on 11/18/2019 9:02:22 AM PST by sloanrb
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To: TomServo
And... then the article quotes this 22yo woman complaining about her Boomer coworkers:

She also thinks, "OK, boomer," to herself when colleagues don't understand the concept of a fluid gender identity. "They'll say something like, 'You know, there are only two genders.' And I mean, I understand that that's how they were raised, but that kind of stuff just doesn't fly now."

OK, Millennial. LOL.

16 posted on 11/18/2019 9:02:25 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: noiseman
The day will come where millennials will have to figure out how to eat their smartphones to survive.

Yup - if we ever face an EMP attack - they're screwed - and hard.

17 posted on 11/18/2019 9:02:31 AM PST by TomServo
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To: Rebelbase

I agree. When millennials age and the youth of the day attack them it will be over socialism and how they enslaved future generations. Millennials are among the most uneducated and unreliable of the generations.


18 posted on 11/18/2019 9:03:19 AM PST by Lopeover (Patriots Fight)
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To: C19fan

YES!


19 posted on 11/18/2019 9:03:29 AM PST by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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To: TomServo

I prefer #OKpajamaboy


20 posted on 11/18/2019 9:03:59 AM PST by lodi90
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