Today, in Posting on Dreamwidth to Avoid the Tumblr Headache...

[soc_puppet]

Can we count me firmly on Team The Age Division Is A Distraction To Divide Us, please?

My dad is sixty. He's definitely a boomer. He is also a lifelong Democrat and staunchly pro-union; he makes sure I vote every election. He was a Bernie supporter in early 2016, and got behind Hillary when she won the nomination. He's run for political office in the city where I live and grew up, and one of our oldest family friends is a politically active socialist. He does lots of volunteering, especially with food rescue and the Center for Worker Justice, the latter of which grew out of the Black Lives Matter movement. Once a month he pickets for veterans. And that's not even touching the rest of his friends circle!

Meanwhile, several of my direct coworkers, the majority of whom are within ten years of my age, have no interest in voting what-so-ever. As far as I'm aware, my boss, who is younger than I am, isn't even registered.

I just... That's what I think about, every time I read the words "Okay, Boomer". There's gotta be an comeback that'll work almost as well that isn't fucking ageist.

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[caprices]

Plus a lot of the foundational groundwork for ecologic awareness and social change was done by boomers. I mean, the whole thing was that it was a population boom which had lots of variation and diverging viewpoints leading to massive social changes. That variation didn't go away.

I think being skeptical of any deeply divisive take is warranted.

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