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To: NorthMountain

I don’t have a problem with the term ‘boomers’. It just refers to the population boom after WWII. One of our own generation probably coined it...


166 posted on 05/28/2026 2:29:38 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
It just refers to the population boom after WWII.

That's essentially everybody alive today ...

I object to stereotyping "generations", because it's an ignorant and stupid thing to do ... and the stereotyping and the pot-stirring are impossible without the naming. So by simple logic I also object to the naming.

Naming and stereotyping "generations" as is done today is saying that a child born to a wealthy family in New York City in 1946 is essentially the same as a child born to a dirt-poor farm family in rural Iowa in 1964. The absurdity of that notion should be obvious even to someone with an IQ in the low 80s ...

188 posted on 05/28/2026 2:56:56 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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