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I saw this on late night talk and then found this article
OK Boomer
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/asia/new-zealand-ok-boomer-trnd/index.html?no-st=1573068367
Now as I am just a young plucky person under the century mark I am baffled how dismissing someone based on age is acceptable behavior. Sure the heckler in the article was wrong to disrupt and the late night talk show host in the US had a valid point that "ok boomer" is not as vile as using the "N-word" as an insult but does that mean it is any more civil? No.
Whipping out some other terms besides boomer that could apply: codger, old fart, Col. Blimp (new to me), biddy, old bag, old bat, - well you see none are really more than name calling based on age.
So how does this apply to us as motovloggers? We tend to dabble in being relevant and hip to what all the cats are saying around the schoolyard. It would be tempting to fall into such temptation and give the wrong impression we are ageist.
I wouldn't want to be dismissed with "ok RUB" would you? But I am not apt to disrupt a government proceeding.
Stay cool kids!
OK Boomer
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/asia/new-zealand-ok-boomer-trnd/index.html?no-st=1573068367
Now as I am just a young plucky person under the century mark I am baffled how dismissing someone based on age is acceptable behavior. Sure the heckler in the article was wrong to disrupt and the late night talk show host in the US had a valid point that "ok boomer" is not as vile as using the "N-word" as an insult but does that mean it is any more civil? No.
Whipping out some other terms besides boomer that could apply: codger, old fart, Col. Blimp (new to me), biddy, old bag, old bat, - well you see none are really more than name calling based on age.
So how does this apply to us as motovloggers? We tend to dabble in being relevant and hip to what all the cats are saying around the schoolyard. It would be tempting to fall into such temptation and give the wrong impression we are ageist.
I wouldn't want to be dismissed with "ok RUB" would you? But I am not apt to disrupt a government proceeding.
Stay cool kids!