595

Often not even worth explaining... (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 6 months ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com

67 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 28 points 6 months ago

Boomers is more of a mindset than a specific age range to be fair

[-] higgsboson@dubvee.org 8 points 6 months ago

Hard disagree. It's a generation. If people used zoomer or millennial in the same disparaging way in a meme, they'd be lambasted.

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 23 points 6 months ago

Yeah baby boomers are a generation, but not all baby boomers have a boomer mentality. I know some Gen X, some millennials and some zoomers that do too.

[-] higgsboson@dubvee.org 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm familiar with the argument. And yet it is an age descriptor used as a pejorative. But no one cares because its just old people, right?

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago

Well, maybe "old people" should have stopped fucking everything up for everyone about 50 years ago. Fuck em

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 12 points 6 months ago

Don't be absurd, the Greatest Generation was awesome.

It's their kids that suck.

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Well, a word can have multiple meanings

[-] higgsboson@dubvee.org 5 points 6 months ago

So if someone called a gay person f-slur, its okay because words have different meanings. Got it.

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months ago

Oh boy, are you intentionally dense?

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 12 points 6 months ago

Yep, totally the same thing, a blanket word for obtuse close minded people and a sexual slur

[-] higgsboson@dubvee.org 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Now you get it. A slur doesn't become not a slur just because it has other meanings

e.g, evaluate this hypothetical statement by fictional commenter Chad Dudebro:

"Calling him a (f-slur) doesn't mean OP is homophobic. Being a (f-slur) is a state of mind."

It ain't the same level of offensive, but "boomer" is obviously an agist slur. Its just that no one cares because its okay to hate old people.

[-] ochi_chernye@startrek.website 13 points 6 months ago

I think it's the difference between punching down and punching up. Boomers in general have far more money and power than the people using the term. So complaining that it's ageist, and comparing it to a homophobic slur will get you about as much traction as white people being offended by cracker, and comparing it to slurs used against African Americans.

[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago

Exactly this.

[-] desktop_user 5 points 6 months ago

a mindset from a different time has little to do with age and more to do with the environment they grew up in. If a baby boomer time traveled from when they were 20 to now they would still be a boomer.