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.
The boomers didn’t join the Silent Generation in the role of civil rights reactionaries until the '70s or '80s.
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.
Edit: to be clear, I’m not trying to say the boomers were good people! I’m just saying that the person I replied to had his timeline off because in the '60s, most of the boomers weren’t adults yet.
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.
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 ‘all the old, white people I don’t like who have the right to vote for things’
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.
The boomers didn’t join the Silent Generation in the role of civil rights reactionaries until the '70s or '80s.
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.
Exactly, which is why the comment I was responding to…
…was wrong.
Edit: to be clear, I’m not trying to say the boomers were good people! I’m just saying that the person I replied to had his timeline off because in the '60s, most of the boomers weren’t adults yet.
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.
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 ‘all the old, white people I don’t like who have the right to vote for things’