# OK Boomer! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 8, 2019, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-boomer/843162 "2019-11-08T01:49:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-boomer/843162/241 "2019-11-13T19:34:54Z")
> [@Pantastic](#): > > Again, I will note that “alright Grandad!” has not been compared to a racial slur, has not had companies issue specific policy against it and not similar age-based terms, and has not had multiple articles in prominent publications like the NYT discussing it. Has “Ok, Boomer” had companies prohibiting it? I just saw one thing floating around that was a lawyer trolling to get an article in Business Insider written about him by saying “This COULD be a violation of federal age discrimination law, call me to learn more!” ---
**Author:** ![BeagleJesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5daacb/32.png) [@BeagleJesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeagleJesus)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-boomer/843162/242 "2019-11-14T14:15:18Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > You don’t get a free pass from having your claims challenged. The discussion wasn’t being reframed, you were being asked to back up the things you said. > > You didn’t and you flounced instead. Oh silly rabbit. How many times do I have to tell you I’m not going to follow you down your little semantic rabbit hole so you can change the subject of the discussion to something where you actually have a cogent argument? It didn’t work in the blackface thread, it’s not going to work here, and it’s not going to work in the future. If you actually want to discuss the topic at hand then great. If you want to change the topic of discussion to “list every issue you have with Boomers starting from WWII to present” or some other spurious bullshit then you’re gonna have to find someone else to play your little game. > [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > And it was a perfect example of what a weak response it is. Someone somewhere else in thread used the phrase “ok sonny”. There is no practical difference between the two. To repeat and rephrase at least a dozen or so posts in this thread: it’s a dismissal and conversation ender (that is possibly used to trigger a negative emotional response) and is not meant to be profound. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-boomer/843162/243 "2019-11-14T16:02:33Z")
It is peak Boomer to not understand “OK Boomer”. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-boomer/843162/244 "2019-11-14T16:09:38Z")
I think it’s worth noting that the preferred presidential candidate of a lot of the millennials who might say “OK Boomer” is a straight white male so old he predates the boomer generation. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-boomer/843162/245 "2019-11-14T19:04:23Z")
> [@BeagleJesus](#): > > Oh silly rabbit. How many times do I have to tell you I’m not going to follow you down your little semantic rabbit hole so you can change the subject of the discussion to something where you actually have a cogent argument? It didn’t work in the blackface thread, it’s not going to work here, and it’s not going to work in the future. The time you save might be well spent learning what “semantics” are. Your post (that I initially responded to) laid out the reasons why you think it is OK to dismiss people of a certain generation. I thought those reasons were hyperbolic and broad-bush so you were asked to back them up. You can go back and check if you like. > [@](#): > > If you actually want to discuss the topic at hand then great. If you want to change the topic of discussion to “list every issue you have with Boomers starting from WWII to present” If that were the question I wanted to ask you’d know, because I’d ask it. I didn’t change the subject, You were directly challenged on your claims. If you are now saying that the state of the world and the people to blame for it is now is irrelevant then OK, say so.But that wasn’t your postion when you said. > [@](#): > > The Boomers have been fucking the world up for decades and > [@](#): > > When you produce such poor results over such a long period of time no one has any interest in hearing your next nugget of wisdom, whatever it may be. So clearly the record of the boomer targets is relevant to the conversation, otherwise why did you bring it up? > [@](#): > > To repeat and rephrase at least a dozen or so posts in this thread: it’s a dismissal and conversation ender (that is possibly used to trigger a negative emotional response) and is not meant to be profound. _Exactly_ my position as well. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-boomer/843162/246 "2019-11-14T19:09:52Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > I think it’s worth noting that the preferred presidential candidate of a lot of the millennials who might say “OK Boomer” is a straight white male so old he predates the boomer generation. And yet he’s not “OK boomer” fodder. So why can’t other boomers be ? And what does that say about “OK boomer” ? ETA : BTW, this is not limited to Bernie. Jeremy Corbyn is lauded among (some) millenials as an “absolute boy”, despite his definitly not grokking his own absolute boyness or meme culture etc… To say nothing about his factual age. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-boomer/843162/247 "2019-11-14T19:17:57Z")
Fucking edit window. Amend that to “despite his own very presumable not awareness or understanding of his absolute boyness in the eyes of his supporters, disconnect from memetic culture etc… To say nothing about his factual age.” ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-boomer/843162/248 "2019-11-14T19:56:29Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Fucking edit window. Amend that to “despite his own very presumable not awareness or understanding of his absolute boyness in the eyes of his supporters, disconnect from memetic culture etc… To say nothing about his factual age.” I don’t think anyone knows which era Corbyn belongs to, perhaps that of the peasants revolt and Wat Tyler (not to be confused with the pedants revolt led by Which Tyler) ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-boomer/843162/249 "2019-11-14T20:14:05Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > I don’t think anyone knows which era Corbyn belongs to, perhaps that of the peasants revolt and Wat Tyler ( **not to be confused with the pedants revolt led by Which Tyler** ) … blades at dawn for that one. Name your second. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-boomer/843162/250 "2019-11-14T20:54:43Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > … blades at dawn for that one. Name your second. Not mine I promise, I’ve a feeling it was either Stephen Fry or Stewart Lee, blame them. Be honest though, Corbyn would look at home in a smock with a pitchfork and a demijohn of scrumpy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-boomer/843162.md?page=12)