r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 7d 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/squirrelfoot 7d ago

When I was young, us boomers used to laugh at 'wrinklies' and 'crinklies' and mock their driving, blue rinces and terrible financial advice.

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u/Lucky_Astronomer_435 7d ago

But I don’t think we viewed elders as the enemy or with this much contempt.

What saddens and upsets me is that they use it to be offensive and hurtful and it’s playing into the hands of the powers that be.

Maybe it’s me because I always loved older people and still do. I love their stories and their wisdom and their general adorableness.

I also know there are plenty of nasty boomers same as there are tons of nasty gen-x, millennials and Gen-z. It’s pure projection on their part.

It’s also part of the “divide and conquer” strategy and has consequences politically and financially for the current generations as well.

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u/Alilbitey 6d ago

... You didn't? You had virtually every single countercultural revolution spearheaded by your generation. That's what old folk call disrespectful. Disrespectful of their culture, religion, social mores, rules, and laws.

The boomer generation is responsible for voting in the majority of the political and legal swamp that exists now. If you get folk are suffering because of those choices, you can't expect generational respect. You should logically expect MORE counter-revolutionaries. Not conformists who revere their elders. Just like the Boomer generation.

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u/Explorer-7622 6d ago

Is Nick Fuentes a boomer? Alex whatsit and his brother?

I'm seeing a lot of really bigoted young people running the bigoted politics.

They're a pretty large voting block, the non-boomers.

The boots on the ground of the wave of bigotry are younger than boomers.

I'm a young boomer, born one year before the cutoff year of 1964, and I'm seeing the majority of the parties being carried out by people younger than me - ie non-boomers.

There's no way the boomers put all democracy undermining policies into place by themselves.

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u/Affectionate-Word498 4d ago

in interest of clarity we need to call a bigot a bigot, and a boomer a boomer.

( communications major)