• Higgs boson@dubvee.org
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    Could you not use people’s age as an insult?

    If you don’t get it, it’s not even worth explaining.

    k, thanks. bye.

    edit: I’ve engaged enough here. Feel free to comment if you’d like blocked.

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        Hard disagree. It’s a generation. If people used zoomer or millennial in the same disparaging way in a meme, they’d be lambasted.

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          Yeah baby boomers are a generation, but not all baby boomers have a boomer mentality. I know some Gen X, some millennials and some zoomers that do too.

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            I’m familiar with the argument. And yet it is an age descriptor used as a pejorative. But no one cares because its just old people, right?

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                So if someone called a gay person f-slur, its okay because words have different meanings. Got it.

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                    Now you get it. A slur doesn’t become not a slur just because it has other meanings

                    e.g, evaluate this hypothetical statement by fictional commenter Chad Dudebro:

                    “Calling him a (f-slur) doesn’t mean OP is homophobic. Being a (f-slur) is a state of mind.”

                    It ain’t the same level of offensive, but “boomer” is obviously an agist slur. Its just that no one cares because its okay to hate old people.

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              a mindset from a different time has little to do with age and more to do with the environment they grew up in. If a baby boomer time traveled from when they were 20 to now they would still be a boomer.

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              Well, maybe “old people” should have stopped fucking everything up for everyone about 50 years ago. Fuck em

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      The last characteristic you are allowed to freely attack. It’s rampant online and they don’t even know they’re doing it .