Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 1744886)

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.

Originally Posted by MorTech (Post 1744731)

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.

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 1744886)

"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. (etc.)

Originally Posted by Heyitsrick (Post 1745018)

Great post.

The notion that "Boomers" are exclusively responsible for the ills of this nation is absurd. There's no perfect generation. There's no generation that hasn't contributed to where we are as a nation, for both good and bad.

If you're wondering who that includes, that means you, your children, your grandchildren and your grandparents. You can keep going back in time to earlier generations, as well. Everyone has had a hand in it all.

That's the truth that I'm "OK" with.

Originally Posted by maggie1 (Post 1744783)

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.

Originally Posted by Choro&Swing (Post 1744829)

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!

Originally Posted by NFRicaS (Post 1745043)

Remember when our parents and Ed Sullivan hated the twitching hips of Elvis Presley? Makes me laugh at what we look at now!!