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‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations
NY Slimes ^ | Oct. 29, 2019 | Taylor Lorenz

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boomer; boomershutins; genz; millennials; spoiledbrats
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Ironically, the Democrats could end up nominating an OK Boomer next year for President. Pocahontas Warren was born in Oklahoma on 6/22/1949, so she is a boomer.

She was born on the anniversary of the day that the Left discovered that Adolf Hitler was a bad guy (the day he attacked the Soviet Union).

81 posted on 11/04/2019 8:34:38 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: elcid1970

“All that being said, I wouldn’t want to be a young person now.”

My kids are in their late 20’s, early 30’s and are disgusted with their own generation.


82 posted on 11/04/2019 8:59:14 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Stravinsky

Boomer. ‘No they don’t’ is your cogent retort?

They’ve weaponized college against their kids and grandkids so that they become indentured servants for the rest of their lives. QE infinity has created an asset bubble so big they will likely never own a home.

And that’s just the beginning of it. Those two things alone are enough.


83 posted on 11/04/2019 9:08:45 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Stravinsky

It appears to be the only response they have, since facts, logic, and history are not on their side. They have nothing with which to argue, so they forfeit the discussion.


84 posted on 11/04/2019 9:53:38 AM PST by zeugma (I sure wish I lived in a country where the rule of law actually applied to those in power.)
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To: CodeToad

True enough. And that will make it all the worse for them.

CC


85 posted on 11/04/2019 10:02:44 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: CodeToad

“They were the prime age for wanting sex without consequences.”

And that differs from the history of the human race in what way?


86 posted on 11/04/2019 12:03:31 PM PST by odawg
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To: odawg

Follow along. That wasn’t the question


87 posted on 11/04/2019 12:14:03 PM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: Pajamajan

touche...

fwiw...I am tail end charlie boomer


88 posted on 11/04/2019 12:23:59 PM PST by QualityMan
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To: CodeToad

Follow along. You suggested Boomers were the first to want sex without consequences and adored abortion.

Absurd on both counts.


89 posted on 11/04/2019 12:33:36 PM PST by odawg
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To: KitJ

“Don’t let these tools win by trying to divide the generations! We’re pretty much all on the same boat, right?

_______________________________________

Well said, Kit J.

I can see where you are coming from in your ping.

It is a wonderful feeling having Pres Trump at the helm during this timeframe in our history.


90 posted on 11/04/2019 2:04:47 PM PST by Notthereyet (NotThereYet)
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To: Stravinsky
Old economy Steve.


91 posted on 11/04/2019 2:09:42 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Alberta's Child
The oldest Baby Boomers would have been about 27 years old in 1973 when the Roe v. Wade decision was handed down.

Exactly. Boomers were the ones aborting their babies.

92 posted on 11/04/2019 7:04:31 PM PST by Hepsabeth
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To: Stravinsky

And they type this crap into their $1,100 iPhones that are still on mom and Dad,s account.


93 posted on 11/04/2019 7:07:56 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: odawg

You are missing a generation,I think. Of course they were the silent generation. They are akin to the Gen X’rs. Both are stuck in a gap that no one remembers and who had to eat the shit of their predecessors.


94 posted on 11/04/2019 7:20:58 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Stravinsky

My responce is ok commie.


95 posted on 11/14/2019 1:44:56 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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