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Just 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.

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criitz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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- grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Exactly, which is why the comment I was responding to…
  
  Most boomers spent the 60s beating the shit out of Civil Rights protestors and spitting on children because their schools were desegregated.
  
  …was wrong.
  
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  - Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
    
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    grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
    
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key@lemmy.keychat.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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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- Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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’
  
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