Post A6BfmQTi8DNfUYSviq by dynamic@cybre.space
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(DIR) Post #A6BHAUOYiqqFjgQvoG by arteteco@qoto.org
2021-04-12T20:11:15Z
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Maybe I'm just getting old, but I find it disturbing when "boomer" is used as in insult or as a mockery. Is it so in your language too?I don't think I've ever seen someone go against this kind of discriminatory language though so maybe it's just that I hang out with the wrong people =D
(DIR) Post #A6BIA3tNMMUFUbCwHA by freemo@qoto.org
2021-04-12T20:22:14Z
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@arteteco I dont get offended by it so much as I immediately know its a person who isnt likely to add much value to most conversations.
(DIR) Post #A6BIKcJuDEItAGeMQS by arteteco@qoto.org
2021-04-12T20:24:13Z
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@freemo well, I don't get offended neither, also because I'm not a boomer, but I think if I'd so often be called "old!" because I fail to do something or because of a way I speak or act, that would make me feel quite bad
(DIR) Post #A6BIOgYqO1zFTZZqhE by arteteco@qoto.org
2021-04-12T20:25:02Z
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@freemo well, I don't get offended neither, also because I'm not a boomer, but if I was called "old!" just because I fail to do something or because of a way I speak or act, that would make me feel quite bad
(DIR) Post #A6BIbhlrCQtwzcs8WG by freemo@qoto.org
2021-04-12T20:27:11Z
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@arteteco Fair, though people with little value often say things that might be hurtful just to get attention since people rarely want to pay them attention due to their lack of value in the first place.Its like the conspiracy theorists, the more you ignore them because what they say is in no way productive or helpful the louder and more offensive they get in the hopes someone will finally engage with them.
(DIR) Post #A6BfmQTi8DNfUYSviq by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-04-13T00:47:02Z
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@arteteco I love the boomers. Some of them raised me!
(DIR) Post #A6CQ5bviNGzUOzeNGq by arteteco@qoto.org
2021-04-13T09:25:56Z
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@dynamic Yeah I don't love them and I don't hate them, depends on people, I just find it very offensive to use the age as an insult. Not sure how is it different from using the skin color or the gender, but I rarely see people talking against this kind of speech
(DIR) Post #A6CTnfIvUPNnTJCo9Q by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-04-13T10:07:30Z
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@arteteco One of the things that perplexes me about the current use of "boomer" is that the term refers to people who were born between specific dates, but that the way it is commonly used seems to be an exact stand-in for older terms for old people: "grandma", "pops", "fogie." Those kinds of slurs have been with us for a while, but this one seems to be stereotyping not old people, but people of a specific generation. And yet, I think that a lot of people using the term don't know that Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are too old to be boomers. I wonder whether it's common knowledge that Barack Obama is too young to be a boomer.
(DIR) Post #A6CUG1DNcVWFXC8CZs by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-04-13T10:09:03Z
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@arteteco A millennial friend of mine recently got "okay boomer"d by one of his students. Would it hit you any differently if the student had said "okay, pops" instead?
(DIR) Post #A6CUG1kLdvtHBRYWxs by arteteco@qoto.org
2021-04-13T10:12:37Z
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@dynamic Yeah, I'm a millenial and I've also been often called a boomer. In time a sense of being old grew on me and I hate itNo it wouldn't make a sensible difference to be called "pop" or "grandpa", I'd still find it offensive, it's just that I never see those in my language while I often hear boomer.I agree that is often not properly used, but that's how it goes with insults
(DIR) Post #A6JRNiO0GTI48a6Km0 by lucifargundam@qoto.org
2021-04-16T18:43:24Z
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@arteteco I'm not a boomer myself- but from what I understand its original intent was to label a generation of people but has since then been transformed into an insult. That being noted, I would feel insulted if someone called me a boomer- not just because of the insulting implications, but also because I'm not so old as the originally referred 'boomers'.