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> "boomer" is a pretty hatefull slur these days What? It's absolutely not as insulting as any number of terms used against people of color, people with disabil
by yladiz 3y ago
> "boomer" is a pretty hatefull slur these days
What? It's absolutely not as insulting as any number of terms used against people of color, people with disabilities, women, minorities (the list can go on), and saying it's a hateful slur starts to put it in the same ballpark as those, which is very disingenuous. It's also not even that true; "ok boomer" is often used ironically within a group of friends these days, and sometimes used against an actual baby boomer, but it's not really that hateful.
- savanaly 3y agoIt’s not a misery contest. I wouldn’t use the word either and concur it’s hateful.
- yladiz 3y agoIt's not about it being a contest, and while hateful words are hateful no matter how "badly hateful" they are, it's also not fair to just lump all words used in a hateful way together because it equates words legitimately used to demean, dehumanize, etc. a group of people with ones that are at worst moderately hateful, like boomer, which is what my point is. Basically, a hateful slur is the N-word, boomer is not the N-word, and equating them in any meaningful way belittles the legitimate hatefulness of the N-word. It's disingenuous to say that boomer is as bad at something like "bitch", but they're a lot closer.
- ranguna 3y agoIt's generally used as a synomim of "tech illiterate". But personally, just because that's the case, I don't think we should stop using it when referring the original meaning of the word.