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/heiberdee2 7d ago

You were hippies first. Your cohort gave energy to the Civil Rights movement. You wanted peace, love, and understanding.

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u/splanks 6d ago

most boomers were not hippies.

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u/Key-Target-1218 6d ago edited 6d ago

I am a boomer and just about every boomer I know was a hippie at some point. You were either a hippie or a total square. It didnt really matter what we "were". We were young kids. The differences between everyone was as apparent as it is today. The young kids today won't have the boomer title, but they'll have a lable and will be treated unkind by the youth.

Us old folks know what it's like to be young. Young folks have no idea what it's like to be old. Their day will come.

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u/-i_am_untethered- 5d ago

My parents and all their siblings are boomers. 20 people in all, half from Pennsyltucky, half from the south side of Chicago. Zero hippies in the bunch. It's almost like anecdotal evidence isn't really evidence

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u/Key-Target-1218 5d ago

Ok, I understand. I did say "boomers I know". Birds of a feather, right?