Posted on 11/03/2019 8:44:35 PM PST by Stravinsky
Now it’s war: Gen Z has finally snapped over climate change and financial inequality.
In a viral audio clip on TikTok, a white-haired man in a baseball cap and polo shirt declares, “The millennials and Generation Z have the Peter Pan syndrome, they don’t ever want to grow up.”
Thousands of teens have responded through remixed reaction videos and art projects with a simple phrase: “ok boomer.”
“Ok boomer” has become Generation Z’s endlessly repeated retort to the problem of older people who just don’t get it, a rallying cry for millions of fed up kids. Teenagers use it to reply to cringey YouTube videos, Donald Trump tweets, and basically any person over 30 who says something condescending about young people — and the issues that matter to them.
Teenagers have scrawled the message in their notebooks and carved it into at least one pumpkin. For senior picture day at one Virginia high school, a group of nine students used duct tape to plaster “ok boomer” across their chests.
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And so Ms. Kasman and other teenagers selling merch say that monetizing the boomer backlash is their own little form of protest against a system they feel is rigged. “The reason we make the ‘ok boomer’ merch is because there’s not a lot that I can personally do to reduce the price of college, for example, which was much cheaper for older generations who then made it more expensive,” Ms. Kasman said. “There’s not much I can personally do to restore the environment, which was harmed due to corporate greed of older generations. There’s not much I can personally do to undo political corruption, or fix Congress so it’s not mostly old white men boomers who don’t represent the majority of generations.”
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Ouch. Lol
####For senior picture day at one Virginia high school, a group of nine students used duct tape to plaster “ok boomer” across their chests.####
Make them all ride the bus for a couple weeks and “ok boomer” shirts will be replaced with “drill baby drill” slogans.
“the reason college has jumped exponentially in cost is due to all the subsidies, handouts, freebies, etc. to make it “more affordable” resulting in hyperinflation of tuition.”
As soon as you walk in to the financial office they shove papers under your nose to apply for every student loan or grant available. Take government subsidies out of it and all this changes overnight. If colleges actually had to compete for their money instead of the government handing it to them, kids might actually learn something besides how bad America is. Now their only competition is to be more woke than another college so whiny snowflake morons want to go there because its “cool”.
The agents of division succeed again.
This is a generation that’s been spoon-fed endless tales of despair and hopelessness since they were toddlers. Despite the fact that no generation has ever had it better, they believe the lies. That way, they have their generational Cause, to which they can all be martyrs.
Ok, doomers.
Hey, you know?
I talk to my brothers (X’ers) and they are both working for the State of California in some capacity or another (under Calpers).
I talk to them about pension spiking, and I explain how the math doesn’t work. I mean, there is no way they are going to get a fraction of what they think they are going to get. I show them how vicious the math gets as the boomers pass into oblivion.
They just look back at me and said, “Hey, that’s the deal everyone signed.” As if that is going to make any difference at all when your generation says, “2 and 2 no longer make 4 grandpa. I hope you like Ramen, which is the food of my generation.”
Your brothers need to talk to some Indians on the reservation and ask how that worked out. ;<)
It’s 1967 all over again.
“Time is a humbling MF’er, and trust me, kids your time is coming.”
Sure, but what did their baby boomer parents do to prepare them? Nothing.
“The vast majority of Boomers were a bit too young to be concerned about abortion in 1973.”
Actually, no. Boomers were on average 21 years old, being born 1946 - 1964.They were the prime age for wanting sex without consequences.
The Tribes are doing fine. They became valuable as part of the leftist coalition and got a ton of cash for it.
They are now. Just tell your brothers that their great grandchildren will do fine.
It’s just the NYT feeding the Maxist-Leninist dialectic. Everyone has to be in conflict with everyone else. No social cohesion means no organized resistance to tyranny.
I was 18 in 1967. It won’t be like that again unless they bring back the draft.
In 1967 we had been in Vietnam for two years & people complained about the protracted struggle in S.E. Asia.
That summer the hippie counterculture was emerging. The Pill was already blamed for the sexual revolution.
Race riots in many cities, so a sitting President wanted Federal gun registration & licensing of owners.
No intergenerational blamefare. There were Boomers & only Boomers. Millions tuned in, turned on, & dropped it. Millions of others answered their country’s call and served.
Mainline churches were dissolving into squishy relativism. Nothing new there.
In my opinion what most separates today’s world from that of 1967 is the information revolution. No more gospel according to Walter Cronkite. Go online and search for knowledge. For now, at least, seek and ye shall find.
All that being said, I wouldn’t want to be a young person now.
No, they don’t have a point. What are you, Gen X?
Bingo. Also, this wee band of high school kids does not a trend make.
You have a fair point which the Boomer-haters will ignore.
The author of Roe, Justice Blackmun, was in his mid 60s when he authored the opinion in 1973. The creators and pushers of the pill were born many, many decades before the boomers. And so on.
I agree that’s part of it, but I suspect there is an even darker plan in the works. They want the youth to rise up and kill “the olds”.
Thanks for the breakdowns and the links.
You lead a lively, colorful discussion.
I can feel the joy and the energy.
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