Boomers' reputation on the Internet

[sbarrera]

(10-11-2019, 08:47 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:

(10-11-2019, 07:11 AM)sbarrera Wrote: From my blog. Boomers are associated with the fading past and with reactionary politics. Not necessarily fairly.

sbarrera Wrote:the Millennial stereotype of what a Baby Boomer is - basically an old white Christian who supports President Trump, is hopelessly out of touch with modern values

I've seen this concept to and it baffles me.

The ideology "cool" Millennials believe in is, basically the post-WW2 Inclusivity meme which was invented by some dissident GIs and Silents in the late 1940s and popularized by radical Boomer students in the late 1960s and 70s. It's surely an oversimplification, but I like to view it as the opposite of fascism. These Millennials are attacking the ground they are standing on.

Of course one is free to reject the post-WW2 ideas and go back to the Missionary worldview. Something the neo-cons did, as far as they stuck to the Missionary "victorious civilization" meme. But very few cool Millennials like neo-cons and the Missionary values. The candidate a stereotypal cool Millennial would vote for in 2020 American elections is Elizabeth Boomer, I mean Elizabeth Warren, the ultimate 1960s radical student.

Yeah, like I said it's unfair. Great point that it was the Boomer (and older) generation who gave us the values that "woke" Millennials accept today. But the stereotype fits for the Boomers who *are* Trump supporters. Apparently Millennials want all the credit for the other political option. Or think of non-Trumper older people as centrists.

I couldn't find a good link on Elizabeth Warren's college days, just that she graduated in 1970.