Why does the younger DCUM majority hate Boomers so much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nah, it's just a few bitter people who can't stand their parents and instead of accepting that their families suck they want to make it a generation-wide problem.

Btw, the poster is incredibly easy to taunt.

I don't think it's just a few bitter people.

Consider what the boomers have consumed, versus what they've produced.

Ha ha, keep trying! Your trolling really needs work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boomers are a mixed bag.

They did a lot of good -- moving women into nontraditional roles in big numbers, starting the GLBT rights movement, supporting a the Civil Rights movement started by the Silent Generation, pushing for the end of the draft, sexual liberation movement, environmental movement, beginning the revolution in computers and communication technology, opening up the culture to more diversity.

Those things caused a lot of upset, though, and unintentional consequences. That's hard to live with, especially if you are a kid at the time.

Boomers are also huge compared to Gen X, and insufferably smug. They also tend to criticize Xers and Millenials for not being Boomers and they NEVER see the good things that Xers and Millenials have going.

Oh please, this is the kind of generalization which is extremely annoying. You are talking about a small group of people who were actively involved in the good things as well as the bad things. These discussions in fact revolve around complaints about white middle class people who came of age in the 60s rather than including all boomers, regardless of race, regardless of class background, regardless of when they were born during the baby boom era.

But you're just an imprecise person, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Nothing like judging a whole group of people based on a stereotype. Let's see, what do they call people who do that....

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigot

big·ot
noun \?bi-g?t\

: a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. : a bigoted person; especially : a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group)

Or troll.

Either way, it shows a definite lack of rigorous thinking and personal insight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nah, it's just a few bitter people who can't stand their parents and instead of accepting that their families suck they want to make it a generation-wide problem.

Btw, the poster is incredibly easy to taunt.

I don't think it's just a few bitter people.

Consider what the boomers have consumed, versus what they've produced.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were boomers. You'd be typing your messages on carbon paper and mailing them to the newspaper without BB innovations.

Actually, in typical boomer fashion, these guys were lucky--they were in the right place at the right time in terms of education, advancements in technology, etc. I think it was Malcolm Gladwell who discovered that an astonishing number of visionary-CEO types were born in or around 1955.

Not saying they weren't smart people, but without these advantages, they likely would not have figured out an alternative to carbon paper, either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nah, it's just a few bitter people who can't stand their parents and instead of accepting that their families suck they want to make it a generation-wide problem.

Btw, the poster is incredibly easy to taunt.

I don't think it's just a few bitter people.

Consider what the boomers have consumed, versus what they've produced.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were boomers. You'd be typing your messages on carbon paper and mailing them to the newspaper without BB innovations.

Actually, in typical boomer fashion, these guys were lucky--they were in the right place at the right time in terms of education, advancements in technology, etc. I think it was Malcolm Gladwell who discovered that an astonishing number of visionary-CEO types were born in or around 1955.

Not saying they weren't smart people, but without these advantages, they likely would not have figured out an alternative to carbon paper, either.

Damn! I was born in 1955! What happened to me?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My boomer parents are selfish and could give a crap about being good grandparents even though they have the time/money to be (just had baby, helped for a day). When we are old, my husband and I aspire to be more helpful and generous with our time.

This has to be the most entitled post I've ever read. "My parents are selfish because they won't help meeeeeeeeeee."

are you joking PP? When people have children, they have families. So yes, grandparents should participate in the families they created.

OP, I'm with you. I can't wait to help my kids have kids when they grow up and can't imagine saying, "OK, I got what I wanted out of the parent-child relationship and now I'm not interested anymore. Being a grandparent is not my thing."

But i can imagine your grown kids moving a long way away from the suffocation that is parents today.

[Anonymous]

I don't hate the boomers. I am disappointed that we've gotten our country into such a mess. I'm worried about the environment, rising cancer rates, global warming, offshoring of jobs, these endless wars in the Middle East, a shrinking middle class.... We've spent too long helping the 1% get richer. I don't understand why the boomers didn't do more to correct these problems, sooner.

Basically I resent all the problems that you will leave behind when you die, and we all have to clean up the mess, and our kids had to wallow in it.

http://acivilamericandebate.com/2011/04/10/the-30-year-growth-of-income-inequality/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't hate the boomers. I am disappointed that we've gotten our country into such a mess. I'm worried about the environment, rising cancer rates, global warming, offshoring of jobs, these endless wars in the Middle East, a shrinking middle class.... We've spent too long helping the 1% get richer. I don't understand why the boomers didn't do more to correct these problems, sooner.

Basically I resent all the problems that you will leave behind when you die, and we all have to clean up the mess, and our kids had to wallow in it.

http://acivilamericandebate.com/2011/04/10/the-30-year-growth-of-income-inequality/

Such nonsense. The boomers helped create the conditions that leave most of the "poor" in this country with an enviable standard of living, complete with TV, cable, A/C, and all types of consumer electronics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because the subsequent generations are paying for the mistakes of the Boomers. And the Boomers were handed a pretty awesome deal by the Greatest Generation. Yet screwed it up. Big time.

This exactly. The Boomers are the most selfish generation of our time. What makes it so despicable for me is that they are the ones who hate the hardest on Millenials.

Millennials (learn to spell) can't hold down a job.

We've already fired three, and another is on her way out. no discipline, no work ethic, selfish

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't hate the boomers. I am disappointed that we've gotten our country into such a mess. I'm worried about the environment, rising cancer rates, global warming, offshoring of jobs, these endless wars in the Middle East, a shrinking middle class.... We've spent too long helping the 1% get richer. I don't understand why the boomers didn't do more to correct these problems, sooner.

Basically I resent all the problems that you will leave behind when you die, and we all have to clean up the mess, and our kids had to wallow in it.

http://acivilamericandebate.com/2011/04/10/the-30-year-growth-of-income-inequality/

Such nonsense. The boomers helped create the conditions that leave most of the "poor" in this country with an enviable standard of living, complete with TV, cable, A/C, and all types of consumer electronics.

Now THAT's nonsense. Cell phones and refrigerators somehow make up for water we can't drink? All of our jobs going to India? Half the moms I know getting breast cancer at 45? A war in Iraq that's been going on for as long as my oldest child has been alive? College tuition becoming either out of reach or a life long debt that our kids can never surmount?

Does it make you feel better to think the poor in this country have cable TV??? See, that is EXACTLY what is wrong with boomers. And then you wonder why the younger generation resents you. Such materialism and condescension in one post!

[Anonymous]

Gen-Xer born 1969 here with parents born pre-boom, during the war. Not a fan of boomerness, but not really feeling the anti-boomer rationales here, although I think I get the millennial resentment. For me, it's mainly just the irksomeness of living in the shadow of boomers' cultural largess, not quite the same as being a victim of their cultural hegemony.

[Anonymous]

Everyone hates baby boomers - they've had their time why don't they shut up already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone hates baby boomers - they've had their time why don't they shut up already.

Ha ha! We're not going to shut up! Deal with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because the subsequent generations are paying for the mistakes of the Boomers. And the Boomers were handed a pretty awesome deal by the Greatest Generation. Yet screwed it up. Big time.

This exactly. The Boomers are the most selfish generation of our time. What makes it so despicable for me is that they are the ones who hate the hardest on Millenials.

Millennials (learn to spell) can't hold down a job.

We've already fired three, and another is on her way out. no discipline, no work ethic, selfish

You fired you future bosses.... Not good

[Anonymous]

What a bunch of pathetic stereotypes. Those of us born at the tail end of boomers in the early 1960s are often still raising teens, dealing with aging parents, worried that we'll be the first to be laid off because we are now over 50 and never find another job, and can't imagine how we'll be able to afford to retire (so you Milleninals can ascend to your "rightful" place) .

I admire many things about the older boomers who helped pave the way for women in the workplace, pushed for environmental reforms (Clean Air Act anyone?), and performed truly great music (thank you Stones, Joni Mitchell and CSN).

So stop all the hate and be glad you're not as wrinkled as us yet!