People just like using “boomer” as a euphemism for “old.” Same type of person as those who have used “millennial” as a euphemism for “young” for the past decade plus.
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grue@lemmy.world 11 months agoJust how old do you think boomers were in the '60s? The generation didn’t start until the baby boom after WWII (hence the name), so the oldest were at most 25 years old at the end of the decade.
key@lemmy.keychat.org 11 months ago
Smoogs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And boomer seems to be just any white person with grey hair. It’s not even referencing a specific generation. It’s just a catch all for ‘old white people running the world’
criitz@reddthat.com 11 months ago
The teens and young 20 somethings in the 60s were the counter culture. You know, “don’t trust anyone over 30”. So they were boomers.
grue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Exactly, which is why the comment I was responding to…
…was wrong.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s correct in the South and parts of the Midwest (this stuff happened in the 80s and 90s too).
Still happening in a few southern areas.
grue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Okay, let me try again:
It was happening in the ‘60s, but it was the boomers’ parents – the Silent Generation – perpetrating it because the boomers were still mostly teenagers at the time.