So I've heard Millennials' growing social media term for COVID-19 is

[misanthrope]

the "Boomer Remover." My hunch is the phrase isn't viewed negatively by those who use it most. Maybe they should say it to their grandparents and parents.

Never think there is a lowest possible level for human behavior. They can always exceed what you've witnessed.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Well, they ARE the progeny of Reagan.

They've never grown up in a functioning and compassionate democracy.

[TheBlackAdder]

58. Boomer Doomer, but Boomer Remover is close.

[hlthe2b]

2. Can there be a more reprehensible reaction? I'll just say that.

[Zoonart]

3. Wow... looks like Americans have raised a bumper crop of little

sociopaths.

[KayF]

16. it's middle school kids

they're supposed to be saying stuff like this.

[Zoonart]

18. I saw another take on this, this morning attributed to the

Db left.

[maxsolomon]

4. LOL, I can see their point.

Signed,

Technically a Boomer ('63).

[janterry]

6. You are NOT a boomer

signed

'64

[maxsolomon]

19. Sorry, '45 to '65 Boomer

Those are the rules. We have to accept our fate.

[htuttle]

22. NOOOOOO

We're Generation Jones, just like Obama.

I'm from '63, Obama is from '62.

[janterry]

24. TY

My Mother is a Boomer

[GoCubsGo]

43. Obama was born in '61, not '62.

Still Generation Jones, though.

[EX500rider]

55. I'm 1962 and consider my self a Gen-X...

....esp since my teen music WAS Generation X (Billy Idol's 1st band) and Sex Pistols and Buzzocks and the Clash etc.
The Boomers are more Stones, Led Zeppelin, CCR, etc.

[janterry]

89. they turned us into boomers at some point, but we never were

I don't know the year, but I was never a boomer when I was young. They struggled for a way to identify us. I remember when I was in college they were calling us the "me generation" - to mean we were selfish. (Not sure what that would have mean for 'me, too' - lol - had it stuck)

But I resent being a part of the same generation that my Mother TOTALLY identifies with. It really is her generation.

I see myself as on the cusp of Gen-X, too

[BumRushDaShow]

91. Supposedly it was based on the availability of "the pill"

which happened in 1964 and there was a corresponding dropoff of births after that. I think of myself as a "tail-end boomer" because where I live, the families were larger, so I grew up with friends who all had older brothers and sisters who were 3 - 4 years older than us, and we all played together across age groups and hung out together.

My mother in no way is a boomer as a 1930 baby - she was from the "Silent Generation" or as she always said they considered themselves - the "Gray Flannel Suit" generation based on the 1955 novel.



(am a just barely '62 - originally due in '61 but didn't want to come out of the oven )

[misanthrope]

122. Agree as well

I'm a '64 and never identified as a Boomer. Even the writer whose novel put the label into widespread usage, Douglas Coupland, was born three years before I was.

If you look at the cultural identities and historical experiences, it's obvious my parents -- who had me while still in college -- are Boomers. Born to the generation that fought World War II, they grew up in a time of rising economics, when America moved into the suburbs. They recall a time before TV was ubiquitous, when all the sets you saw were black and white. Their childhood and adolescence was dominated by Eisenhower Era ethos and values. They remember "duck and cover" and the emergence of Russia as a nuclear power. Wives scarcely worked in their era and often found it difficult to obtain a bank account or credit.

Wider social upheaval percolated after they went off to college. Their peers fought in Vietnam and protested. They or their siblings populated the hippie movement.

Me? I was a latchkey kid whose earliest political memories were shaped by Watergate. I remember a childhood with gasoline lines and economic setbacks, an America becoming far more urban-aware and ethnically diverse. I never knew a time when we didn't have a TV. I spent most all of high school in the Reagan Era (considering its zeitgeist began with the Iranian Hostage Crisis). Graduating college didn't mean we would do better than our parents and it became common to find college graduates populating service industry roles.

My peers fought in the sand of the Middle East, not the swamps of Southeast Asia.

So how can I belong to the generation that is so clearly the one of my parents?

[JHB]

73. Statisticians have dragooned us into the Boomers...

...but we know what bullshit that is.

Signed

more '64

[janterry]

90. they were just taking the easy way out

[misanthrope]

8. I can see wanting someone to open up their perspective

I can't see celebrating a pandemic as the solution for disagreement.

[maxsolomon]

20. Gallows Humor.

Is normal.

[whathehell]

32. Yes, especially when

the 'gallows' are on necks other than one's own.

I'm looking forward to the "Goodbye Gen Y" virus, myself.

[jberryhill]

27. .

Come to earth. Meet the humans.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

56. +1

[Hermit-The-Prog]

116. Do the creators of that animation realize it's about the Black Death?

[BittyJenkins]

5. Feels like

they buy into the movie Logan's Run. Very sad and no respect.

[greenjar_01]

7. Never hearda that

[JustAnotherGen]

9. More likely Generation Z

I've seen it from them. They were born about the early to mid 1990's. They are young enough to think 'it won't be my grandma' and old enough to know better.

[Behind the Aegis]

46. Agreed.

I see some are calling it "Gallow's humor" and it may be, but when I see something like this, all I can think of was the years growing up under the specter of AIDS and hearing, "It's killing all the right people." So, personally, I don't find much humor in this moniker.

[Ms. Toad]

60. Yup.

I was grown by then, bu thave clear memories of GRID, as it was originally called. So given the increasing use of the term "boomer" to denigrate older Americans, not funny.

[JustAnotherGen]

124. Ditto

My mom reminded me the other day (I was so young at that time) - that there was a panic moment when people thought it could be airborne. Some of the worst jokes about homosexuality men having AIDS - stopped.I

Maybe they will stop when a few people in their early 20's die.

[Agschmid]

10. Haven't heard it, I'm a millennial and most of us are concerned for our parents.

This is divisive and unnecessary.

[Mariana]

23. You know how it is.

If one young person says something hateful, they leap to assume that The Millennials™ must all feel that way.

[TygrBright]

33. Yup, just like one selfish oldster is enough to brand all Boomers as clueless greedheads. n/t

[cwydro]

38. I agree.

I also don’t believe it.

[JHB]

72. Yup. This smacks of "Old Man Yells At Cloud" stuff...

Maybe some clique does. So what? Did every Boomer stand astride a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun just because Jane Fonda did?

I didn't, and it's not just because I was 7 at the time. (Statisticians have dragooned me into the Boomers, which is a large part of what convinced me early on that this "generational label" nonsense is just that: nonsense.)

[redstatebluegirl]

11. Well they should get another trophy for that (sarcasm of course).

[SMC22307]

84. And for not voting.

I'm getting to the point where I'm nearly out of fucks to give.

Signed,
Generation Jones (evidently)

[marlakay]

12. My hubby 70 laughed

When I told him.

[Atticus]

13. Every generation has its quota of sick puppies. Most of us---ALL of us---move past the

"I am the center of the universe " stage by the time we learn to pedal a tricycle. Some never learn to play well with---or care about---others.

[LuvNewcastle]

17. Yes, a lot of Boomers were disrespectful of their parents and grandparents.

We all say things we regret later.

[jberryhill]

29. Ya think?

[LuvNewcastle]

31. You read my mind.

[whathehell]

37. Um, not to that extent, as I recall, in fact, the Boomers could

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argue that their parent's generation got them into a war (Vietnam) while our generation permanently removed that threat to them by eliminating the Draft. Thanks of a grateful generation, of course.

[treestar]

109. Don't trust anyone over 30

And about how "square" the "old man" and "old lady" were.

[MaryMagdaline]

14. As a Boomer I have to smile. It's gallows humor

I think I react less to this comment based on anecdotal experiences. When my husband was disabled the last 5 years of his life, we had overwhelming kindness and assistance from young people, from opening doors to helping with wheelchair to greater patience as therapists and nurses. Looking around me at young people paying into social security, taking care of us and still burdened with school debt made me feel good about those coming behind us. They have a dark sense of humor (they grew up on sopranos and breaking bad) but their hearts are good.

[yonder]

15. +1.

[whathehell]

40. As a Boomer, you might remember that, as of 1983, you were part of the

first generation to be burdened with paying for both your retirement AND that of your parent's. Every generation gets their own battles to fight -- I'm sure the little dears will survive nicely.

[MaryMagdaline]

47. I was happy to pay my part! I know I earned more than my parents

Because of low interest student loans that allowed me to get a law degree, a total luxury paid for by the American taxpayer. I owe more than I can ever repay.

I love “the little dears” comment. Similar line from the Philadelphia Story. That put a smile on my face as well

Cheers!

[whathehell]

52. That's nice.They can now be happy to pay theirs.

without, one would hope, snide references to our demise.

Cheers!

[LizBeth]

83. They are talking about my father and a very real concern to me. Not finding it funny.

[Tipperary]

21. I have not heard this at all.

Where have you heard it? Link?

Sounds stupid to me.

[ProfessorPlum]

25. that sounds like Russian bots

designed to create more division among Americans

[Initech]

26. Every time I think humans couldn't sink any lower...

New depths are reached almost daily.

[jberryhill]

28. Yeah, and? Do Boomers have to constantly reinforce their immense hypocritical blind spots?

It was boomers that raised celebrating youth to a cult level.

[MaryMagdaline]

49. Yep! And boy were we right!

My hippy friends were pulling that Reagan lever right on cue

[jberryhill]

62. Correct

[Mariana]

64. And in 2016, the majority of Boomers voted for Trump. nt.

[whathehell]

68. The majority of Americans voted for Hillary Clinton..

The majority of Millennials didn't vote at all...

[whathehell]

50. Boomers didn't raise Youth Celebration to a cult level..

their parents generation did.

As for the Age Trust thing, the earliest boomers did that..By the time Reagan came along, Abbie Hoffman, noted Gen X Conservatism and began saying "Don't trust anyone Under 30".

[Bradshaw3]

51. They also went south to register black voters and were killed

and went to the streets to try and stop the vietnam War and were killed. And revered many older icons like C. Wright Mills.

You know what's truly hypocritical? Calling out Boomers for stereotyping a generation, then doing it yourself.

[jberryhill]

61. Who are you calling "they", junior?

I believe I have a right to criticize members of my own age group.

[whathehell]

70. ..And they have a right to defend them. n/t

[Mariana]

65. I notice you said "They" and not "We".

I take it you are not a Boomer?

[beachbumbob]

30. lots of us boomesr way smarter than the millenial generation, so we will wait this,

millennials aren't immune, many will pass from it as well

Im just hoping way more from the side that will refuse the vaccine

[cwydro]

39. There's a vaccine?

Wow! Hadn’t heard that!

[Sympthsical]

112. Reagan, Bushes, Trump

Denigrating universal healthcare, telling students to deal with massive debt when they paid very little for college themselves, historic income inequality, a planet burning down.

I’m questioning your “smarter” premise here.

[octoberlib]

34. With all the boomers removed they still wouldn't vote

[Paladin]

35. Fuck 'em. (nt)

[jayfish]

36. "You speak like someone who has never been...

Smacked in the fucking mouth
That's ok, we have the remedy
You speak like someone who has never been
Knocked the fuck on out
But we have your remedy"

[GoCubsGo]

41. Generation Vape is apparently unaware that the most vulnerable are those with lung damage.

Like the kind many of them are getting from sucking on their vape pens.

[Meowmee]

123. Generation vape 😹nt

[whathehell]

42. I'm anticipating the "Bye Bye Gen Y" virus, myself.

[Patterson]

44. Fuck these little shits. I've never seen a stupider group of people (not counting the deplorables.)

[whathehell]

67. Lol!

I was thinking along those lines myself .

[Nature Man]

119. Did one of them take your job or something?

[sanatanadharma]

45. We all are going to die

Absolute fact, everyone dies.

At 74 years I am delighted to see (the unsee-able) 'that' which may bring about my death.
What will be, is. I will know it then, whenever, wherever, however. I do chose to not fear now, the then.
And I continue practicing fearlessness 'till the day making it replaces faking it.

I do so wish my boomer-brothers would let go and leave to youth the task of trying to control the total.
A totally impossible task, but we all muddle through trying to do our best.

[Crunchy Frog]

48. Lovely. And edgy. Glad to know that these are the folks who will save the world.

[Baked Potato]

53. "Boomer Remover" huh... well how about this,

... take pen and paper, make an addendum to the will;

1) “If I should die from Covid 19, my heirs don’t get Jack Shit”.

2) “If any heir doesn’t agree, they don’t get Shit, either”.

3) “In fact, if I die from anything other than old age, nope, nothing”.

And

4) “I better live at least as long as Betty White, or else... yep, you get nothing but bills and maybe $250 from Social Security”.

[whathehell]

54. Lol..

Sounds good to me.

[Mariana]

59. If your heirs are so rotten that they're wishing for you to die

why haven't you written them out of your will already?

[Baked Potato]

66. Thank you for the suggestion!

If I die from Covid, I’m damn sure gonna write someone out of my will !

[whathehell]

71. Loll!

[Baked Potato]

74. Yep !

[StarryNite]

57. "Wild in the Streets"

Sally Leroy: America's greatest contribution has been to teach the world that getting old is such a drag.

Kevin Coughlin as Billy Cage
(Max Jacob Flatow Jr alias Frost) "How long you think you're gonna live?"
(Kevin Coughlin) "Thirty, man."
(Max Jacob Flatow Jr alias Frost) "Thirty?"
(Kevin Coughlin) "Twenty-five maybe. After that who needs it, huh?"
(Max Jacob Flatow Jr alias Frost) "Yeah. I don't want to live to be thirty. Thirty is death, baby. That's too much."

[link:

|

[jberryhill]

63. Good one

[JHB]

75. Was that movie as idiotic in '68 as it appears today?

There's a certain quality of "people doing things because the script says so" that I normally equate with Dirty Harry and other vigilante movies.

[StarryNite]

110. It was a bizarre movie back then.

I only saw it one time but the fact that I still think of it at certain times when ageism is brought up, says it made an impact on me. Kind of like the movies "Soylent Green", "Lord of the Flies" or "The Stepford Wives". Although "Wild in the Streets" wasn't as good as those movies. It's not about poor acting or that kind of thing, it's more about the creepy message. LOL

Anyway, from Wikipedia [link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_in_the_Streets|

Wild in the Streets is a 1968 film directed by Barry Shear and starring Christopher Jones, Hal Holbrook, and Shelley Winters. Based on a 1966 Esquire short story "The Day It All Happened, Baby!" by Robert Thom, it was distributed by American International Pictures. The film, described as both "ludicrous" and "cautionary", was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing and became a cult classic of the 1960s counterculture.

Ultimately however, Max and his cohorts may face future intergenerational warfare from an unexpected source: pre-teen children. When a young girl finds out Max's age (which is now 24), she sneers, "That's old!" Later, after Max kills a crawdad that was a pet to several young kids, then mocks their youth and powerlessness, one of the kids resolves, "We're gonna put everybody over ten out of business."

[JHB]

69. Balk. Where did you hear it, from whom/where, and just how "growing" is it? Numbers, please.

All I'm asking is for some actual facts to separate real information from clickbait BS.

[cwydro]

93. Looks like a hit and run post to me.

I don’t believe it anyway.

Several asked where it was heard or seen. No answer.

[JHB]

94. I don't doubt that somebody somewhere has used that term...

...it smacks of the sort of nasty misanthropic humor that can appeal to the unkind thoughts of teens and twentysomethings.

The same as "Never trust anyone over thirty" was.


I just don't see the point of getting all Margaret Dumont over it. Especially when blaming "Millennials" when teens and early-20s people aren't millennials. If one is the sort of person for whom "millennials" is just the new "kids these days", then what one has to say about them is just "get off my lawn" stuff.

[Mariana]

98. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a Boomer who coined the term

just to stir up some shit against Millennials. It certainly had that affect in this thread, didn't it?

[cwydro]

103. Certainly a possibility.

People love to post that kind of thing to get that kind of reaction.

[AlexSFCA]

77. or savior of Medicare or SS

by eliminating eligible population

[LizBeth]

78. Wow. See, I think it might matter if my nieces and nephews consider their grandpa, that they

actually like/love/respect. I know they poo poo the seriousness of the virus. I guess a lot of that generation has a callousness I had not considered.

[Botany]

79. Sorry that is funny

And I am a boomer.

[dewsgirl]

80. First of all, fucking horrible. Second, they are in for a shock,

the media is pushing this talking point just like they did but the flu.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13090303

[ismnotwasm]

81. GenZ think older millennials ARE boomers

Which I find entertaining

[totodeinhere]

82. Of course language like that is reprehensible.

I think sometimes emergencies can bring out the best in people, but all too often it can bring out the worst in people.

[BGBD]

85. Most millennial

are over 30 now. It's Gen Z that is doing this stuff.

Also, when we WERE the youth vote we turned out is a bug way and made sure Obama got elected.

[Aquaria]

86. As if Participation Trophy Winners

Have any room to talk.

[Mariana]

97. It's funny that you have this scorn for participation trophy winners.

They didn't award them to themselves, you know. It was their elders who decided that participation trophies should be a thing, and who handed them out to everyone.

[doc03]

87. I am 71. I must admit my generation sure has screwed things

up for future generations.

[Hoyt]

88. I'm a boomer. I find it funny as long as they are not hoping it works.

[raccoon]

92. Maybe if they say it to their parents and grandparents,

Maybe if they say it to their parents and grandparents, Those individuals might alter their wills.

[Mariana]

96. They might.

Before they do, they might do well to take a moment to feel ashamed that they did such a shitty job raising their offspring.

[Hotler]

95. It was reported that health officials wanted to ask seniors not to fly...

Trump was having none of it. He was encouraging seniors to fly. Make no bones about it, the 1%ers want a bunch of us to die off.

[blogslut]

99. Where did you hear this?

I doubt the veracity of your statement.

[Tarc]

101. Trending

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BoomerRemover&src=typeahead_click&f=live

[blogslut]

102. pfft. Twitter trends aren't a reliable metric

If they were then I would be constantly listening to K-Pop.

[Tarc]

104. The point is, people are using it.

It's not an indictment of all millennials or zoomers, but it is out there.

[blogslut]

105. Oh, those kooky edgelords.

They're so last decade.

[Tarc]

113. You began this tangent by expressing doubt of the OPs statement...

...that millennnials are using the term on social media.

You were shown a link to social media where it is being used, often.

You now make some dippy dismissal of it as "old news".

I don't think I've ever seen anyone backpedal and move the goalposts at the same time. Dexterous, you are.

[blogslut]

120. Okay

I'm not saying the use of the term is old news. I'm saying that being an edgelord is tired and boring and the people that use that hashtag are tired and boring.

If you want to keep arguing your point you're going to have to do it without me.

[JHB]

107. Never trust anyone over 30

Tune in, turn on, drop out.

The point is: boomers did the same sort of thing at the same sort of age.

Why imitate the right-wing outrage-clickbait whirlygig?

[mnhtnbb]

100. If that's what it takes to remove Trump and The Turtle, fine with me!

And I'm a Boomer.

[drray23]

106. i complained about that in another thread i got a hide for it.nt.

[ElementaryPenguin]

108. I'm a boomer - and I predicted there'd be that reaction. Funny gallows humor, to me!!

Don't you remember being young, irreverent, and feeling invincible?



And there are plenty of boomers threatening the world for these kids to demonize!!

Would you mind the boomer remover removing Trump, Barr, etc.? I'm sure not.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

111. Many boomers may die, and leave their money to Gen Xers.

Millenials will still have to wait for their prizes.

Anyway, we boomers would be wise to see that our wills and trusts reflect our current wishes for reward/revenge.

[Jspur]

117. Majority of Millenials

parents are boomers. So who do you think is going to get whatever money the boomers have once they pass away? The answer is millenials.

[Spider Jerusalem]

114. Not Millennials; the oldest Millennials are almost 40 and the youngest are in their mid-20's

this is "Gen Z" (trust a Boomer to not know the difference though, I guess!)

[Jspur]

118. Agreed as one of the older Millennials

it cracks me up when these bitter old people label anybody that is young as a millennial out of anger.

[Hekate]

115. I'm sure their Nana would really appreciate that thought

Ugh