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04-13-2020, 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Choro&Swing
I think the origins of this “OK Boomer” saying, said with en eye roll by people much younger than us, is weariness with people our age telling them how much more wonderful we were when we were young, how much better our music was, how much cooler we were, how much more . . . Fill in the blank. Is it offensive? You bet! Are we to blame for everything wrong? No, of course not!
However, can you remember back to the late sixties and early seventies? A lot of us thought our parents and grandparents were hopelessly old-fashioned. They didn’t like our attitudes toward the war, racism, poverty, capitalism, white collar jobs. We were eager to take over the country and make it better. Really, we weren’t all that different from young people today in our impatience with people older than us. We were highly offensive, too. When I started college in 1972, the Dean of Students had a sign on his desk reading “Vote, but get a haircut.” I thought “Pig” was an acceptable term for a police officer. Times change!
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I graduated college in '72 and agree with all you said. but I'll add the "military-industrial complex" which was the ogre of the times.
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