"OK Boomer" Memes
 

Seeing more like this one:

"OK Boomer...Hurry up and die" -Your Grandchildren

Seems the young are blaming the old for destroying their future.

Sad...I suspect they are going to live to hate us.

You painting an entire generation as viscious haters is just as bad as the individuals who think it's funny to wish death to an entire other generation.

I wonder who they learned it from?

Their school teachers, college professors, the mainstream media....

So in other words - the kids of the boomer generation?

Sorry - not buying it. Also not buying that the entire generation of the millenials are like that. Some are. Just like MY generation "never trusted anyone over 40." Our entire generation didn't think that, but it made for a fun sound bite when we, as youths, wanted to create drama.

It was Weinberg: “Never trust anyone over 30”. Sort of like we have the reverse at the neighborhood pools.

Actually it was only a minority but vocal portion of boomers who bought that crap.

Just a few last year began the "Million Dead Boomers" thing. Just a few. But they were a vocal and hurtful few and they didn't get it from the kind and good people I know in the Boomer generation or the next one older. Every one whose children and grandchildren I know are respectful and hard working and I know just exactly where they got it.

Blessings to all who celebrate Easter and Passover . Good wishes to those who do not.

We are all in a challenging time together.

I don't quite get the meaning of the statement. Are they blaming us for the hate that festers against one another, the pollution we've created and continue to spread, the current pandemic, the poverty, the homeless, inept government, global warming..........wait, I believe I've answered my own question.

I am offended!

I think the young family members just want us to be safe .... I believe you have stated your fears and not reality. If they resent us perhaps it will be for cancelling all the programs meant to protect us from a pandemic .. perhaps they will vote for competent leadership. But young people don't vote .... oh well.

Let’s just make the term Boomer hate speech and that’ll be it

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!

I think that is a narrative that is being pushed, not a reality.

Interesting analogy.

"We" (the baby boom generation) didn't create pollution. We didn't create hate, we didn't create the pandemic. We didn't create the poverty, or homeless, and we didn't create climate change. Inept/corrupt governments are not a new thing.

Hate has existed since Cain and Abel. The concept of Pandemics existed since before Moses parted the Red Sea (that whole black plague and Angel of Death stuff). Jesus implored people to feed the hungry and love the poor, though it goes back WAY further than that. Inept government? "Alas for you, lawyers and pharisees, hypocrites that you be." That was Jesus. Climate Change - notwithstanding that red sea parting trick, the climate has been changing more dramatically than it would, naturally, since before the age of technology began. Ever hear about chamber pots, and what people did to discard human waste before the advent of indoor plumbing?

Our generation has contributed to all of this, absolutely. And we should have done better, I agree. But we didn't create it, and the next generation didn't seem too annoyed with their indoor plumbing that carried waste into reservoirs, massive coal-burning power plants, oil drilling, polluting cars, complete destruction of sandalwood forests in Mysore India, etc. etc.

The Millennial generation was born, give or take, around 1980. The next generation, GenZ, was born on or around 1995. So the Millennial generation are those people who are currently 25-40 years old. There were TWO generations between them and Boomers: GenX (1965-1979), and Xellenials (1975-1985), which overlap for a few years.

So there are people 41-60 who were not Boomers, and not Millennials, who could have made changes. By and large, they didn't do that. Some did. There were some who tried to create change, make a noise, open minds. And they failed. They didn't just fail with the Boomers who were used to the status quo. They also failed with the Millennials who were very happy to have all those fancy spring breaks and iPhones and other world-polluting war-creating tariff-causing perks of being a Millennial.

No one is saying a thing about this "inbetween" pair of generations. The memes are just that: memes. Sound bites. They are stupid, they are out of context, they aren't actually true, and they are intended to trigger old people just like the ones the older generations create to poke fun at and trigger the younger generation.

When you take offense at them, they succeed in eliciting that triggered emotional response they exist to create. Congrats Millennials, you win. And congrats, Boomers, you got sucked right into it.

Me? I'm a boomer. 1961, near the end of the generation. Too young to have been a hippie, too young to understand how the bulk of my own generation can't figure out how to fix a computer, but too old to have much empathy for the middle generations complaining that work is hard.