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Originally Posted by Geeoff
The kids use the word "boomer" to denote an old-fashioned mindset. It is not ageist. In this context, a millennial can be a boomer
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This is obvious bull####. Of course OK Boomer is ageist - it's a rhetorical tool used to instantly discount a person's opinion based on when they wre born, and cast that person as someone worth mocking and not taking seriously. It's mildly obnoxious. It is generally used deliberately to be mildly obnoxious, in order to provoke a reaction and then laugh at the person for getting angry. Trolling, basically. And "mildly obnoxious" is very obviously not comparable to using the N word.
It might have been Trevor Noah who said this recently, but it sums it up: if you're debating the relative badness of two words, and you won't even say one of them, that's the worse word.