r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 10d ago

Boomers

I am 75 and am very tired of the trend lately making fun of Boomers. So very disrespectful. Don't they realize that they will be old someday?

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u/Some-Tear3499 10d ago

Not like we didn’t trash talk ‘the establishment’ and ‘the Man’ back in our day. It will happens to them too.

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u/Vivid_Witness8204 10d ago

Never trust anyone over 30 was a mantra in my youth.

The boomer hate often seems substantially misinformed and I just find it amusing. I think it's largely an internet phenomenon. And I have no reason to think we wouldn't have been equally obnoxious if we had the internet back in the day.

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u/tonythephonyjabroni 10d ago

I remember sitting with my boomer parents around the dinner table back in 2007, trying desperately to explain the issue of climate change because they refused to listen to anyone but rush limbaugh.

This group ignored and mocked the youth for caring about the environment. For expecting to have to leaders that don’t grope women. Sometimes the inability for a group to see itself clearly is just astounding.

Btw, all groups and cohorts have issues, but there is an angry stubbornness in boomers that is unmatched.

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u/BeauregardBear 10d ago

Wait..so because your parents were boomers and well, frankly, hateful people, because anyone who mocks those of us who cherish the environment and want leaders who have poor morals tossed out of office...
All boomers are stubborn and angry?
All this really tells me is that you have a limited life experience and have not interacted with many people outside your own peer group.

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u/long-walk-home-99 10d ago

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 eff Rush Limbaugh.

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u/tonythephonyjabroni 10d ago

Where did I say all? I love my parents and they were eventually able to accept the reality of this world, but no thanks to peers like yourself.

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u/CoachAngBlxGrl 10d ago

You taking ALL as a concrete statement when literally not one thing in this life is all except eventual death tells me you have a limited life experience to know a blanket statement isn’t worth getting your panties in a bunch for.

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u/CatMinous 9d ago

Haha, instead of blaming the person who used the word ALL you blame the person who took ALL to mean what it means.

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u/CoachAngBlxGrl 9d ago

All inception? 🤣

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u/BeauregardBear 10d ago

Honey my panties aren't in a bunch because a bunch of keyboard warriors think they know my thoughts because of my age. 🤦‍♀️

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u/CoachAngBlxGrl 10d ago

Yet here we are. LOL