Twitter Thread Outlines Significance of "Ok Boomer" Phenomenon

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Eric Lund
Nov 25, 2019 12:00 AM EST

For those not in the know, "OK Boomer" is a dismissive retort often used to disregard or mock Baby Boomers and those who are perceived as old-fashioned and being out-of-touch. Part of this phenomenon is the feature that many baby boomers themselves consider this to be an ageist slur. This in turn has been seen by many as a hypocritical overreaction that has been met with more Ok Boomer Roasting on Twitter. The whole thing has stirred up more discussion and argument about age and politics. Here is a Gen-X perspective and explanation of why "ok boomer" is becoming more than just a thing people say on Twitter.

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    Text - John Stoehr's Editorial Board @johnastoehr 1. I'm dismayed to discover that some members of my generation have sided with the generation before us in condemning a trendy catch-phrase among younger Americans. OK BOOMER GIF 9:32 AM 11/7/19 Twitter Web App
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    Text - John Stoehr's Editorial Board @jo... 1d Replying to @johnastoehr 2. Of all people, Generation X (born 1965-1980) should know better than to join the wrong side of a generational war raging at least since Richard Nixon's second term. 4 L2 13 114 John Stoehr's Editorial Board @jo... 1d 3. Let me rephrase. It's not a war in the sense that two sides are clashing. It's more one-sided. It's only when young Americans, whether Millennials or Generation Z (ages 7-22), stand up and say something ab
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    Text - John Stoehr's Editorial Board @jo... 1d 5. So when young Americans come up with a flippant catch-phrase like "OK, Boomer" to acknowledge the war, it's news. There's never been "friendly generational relations." Young people are getting woke. 2 2 L2.5 82 John Stoehr's Editorial Board @jo... 1d 6. Let me rephrase again. It's not so much a one-sided war as a kind of slow-motion sabotage of the very society that created the richest and most politically powerful cohort the world has ever seen.
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    Text - John Stoehr's Editorial Board @jo... 1d 8. It's no stretch to say this same generation did not want to share the blessings of an expanded democracy with the generations that came afterward. The ladder was dropped down for them. They climbed it. They pulled it behind them. up And that started with Generation X. 1341 163 John Stoehr's Editorial Board @jo... 1d v 9. We should know better. Generation Z, which includes my own daughter, is going to face problems boomers refuse to concede are pr
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    Text - John Stoehr's Editorial Board @jo... 1d 11. What do we get? Lots, but what comes to mind is that the boomer generation isn't really what we're told it is. To be sure, baby boomers in their youth protested the Vietnam War, marched for civil rights, went to Woodstock, and all that. 27 67 John Stoehr's Editorial Board @j... .1d 12. But that warm nostalgia is contravened by an ice-cold fact. Since 1972, a majority of boomers has voted for the Republican candidate in all but one presidential e
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    Text - John Stoehr's Editorial Board @jo... 1d 14. Again: Not all, *but most*. And I'm not singling out a majority unfairly. This is fair. Because the biggest generation in size and influence voted for the Republican candidate in all but one presidential election in nearly half a century, boomers are responsible 21 212 85 John Stoehr's Editorial Board @jo... 1d 15. more than any other group of Americans for the dominance of the Republican Party between Reagan's election in 1980 and the financial
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    Text - John Stoehr's Editorial Board @jo... 1d 17. That consensus cracked with the election of the first black president. That's when limited government, fiscal responsibility and all the other conservative principles were no longer sufficient for a generation suddenly awakened by societal change. t13 66 John Stoehr's Editorial Board @jo... 1d 18. The America they grew up in was no longer the America they were living in, and they lashed back against Barack Obama the way they lashed back against
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    Text - John Stoehr's Editorial Board @jo... 1d 20. The biggest American generation in size and influence looked at the younger and rising generations voting for hope and change in 2008, and said no. You can't have the house. We'll burn it down first. This is what the boomers should be known for. Not peace and love. 4 t54 145 John Stoehr's Editorial Board @jo... 1d 21. The "culture war" is drawn out generational conflict that on occasion spasms violently. Only the young are not equals to the old,
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    Text - John Stoehr's Editorial Board @johnastoehr 23. If anything, "OK, Boomer" is too timid. It tries to avoid offending people offended by the acknowledgement of political reality. By virtually everything Though we failed, Generation X wasn't timid. We don't have much, but at least we can offer that. 9:37 AM 11/7/19 Twitter Web App
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