Posted on 11/06/2019 8:33:41 AM PST by yesthatjallen
A 25-year-old New Zealand lawmaker on Tuesday offered a blunt response to a colleague who apparently heckled her during a speech she gave addressing the urgency of climate change on the floor of Parliament: “OK, boomer.”
Chlöe Swarbrick, a member of the Green Party, expressed the statement as she emphasized how the consequences of climate change will fall on people of her generation.
As she expressed support for legislation to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, Swarbrick noted how she would be around the age of the average lawmaker in Parliament by that time.
"We are in a climate crisis, if we don't get this right, nothing else matters. ... In the year 2050, I will be 56 years old, yet right now the average age of this 52nd Parliament is 49 years old," she said, prompting what appears to be an audible gasp and a heckle.
Swarbrick then raised her hand before replying "OK boomer" and moving on with her speech. It is unclear who Swarbrick was directing the remark toward.
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Don't get angry or defensive. If you do, you've taken their bait and fallen into their trap.
Just point out their child-like naïveté.
Somebody replied to me the other day using that comment. Didn’t know what it meant at the time
That’s bordering on a near racist-like usage of the term and certainly “hate speech”.
But that’s par for the course for leftists and the next stage of their devolution. Recall they want the young as low as 16 or younger to vote, like Greta, coz they’re so passionate at that age (but can’t drink, own guns, smoke or do anything “adult”)
This is pure thought/mass mind control.
I think Gen-X has actually *earned* the right to make an ‘OK, boomer’ snark every once in a while, and be completely correct in doing so. Millennials, on the other paw, haven’t earned that right yet.
They're being taught this.
It's ageism.
My response; Your problem is, that you just don’t know, that you don’t know.
Another millidiot who believes climate change is man-made and can be reversed with higher taxes.
No one who expects to inherit anything from me ever says that.
I told the child that when the Boomers were young, their catchphrase was, "Don't trust anyone over 30!" and I was glad to see that she was just like them.
I told the child that when the Boomers were young, their catchphrase was, "Don't trust anyone over 30!" and I was glad to see that she was just like them.
BTW, I’m Gen X. Barely.
That statement “OK, boomer” is bigotry.
It is like saying, “OK, whitie”, “OK, girl” or some other statement. Worse than saying a dismissing “whatever”, it throws in a slur to demonize the person based on DEMOGRAPHICS. That you’re going to dismiss what they say based on who they are. It is a bigoted attack.
Call liberal bullies bigots when they say it.
OK Boomer is an insult?
Isn’t that just a little racist against Oklahomans?
Call liberal bullies bigots when they say it.
Slap them down with their own ignorance.
“In the year 2050, I will be 56 years old..”
You’ll never make it sweetheart...you are too mentally shot and will do yourself in by then.
That’s doggerel, kriggerel
Ageism is an unpunishable crime though
“OK, boomer.”
What...is she calling the guy an Oklahoman?
Basically, Logan’s Run.
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