MEDIA WATCH: Boomers are triggered snowflakes
YAWN
Green Party MP Ricardo Menéndez March blasted for ‘OK, Boomer’ reference
The Green Party’s new senior citizens spokesperson has outraged social media users for using the “derogatory” phrase “OK, Boomer”.
It’s hilarious that Boomers are the first to kick Millennials for being triggered snowflakes, and Boomers are righteous to do that because Millennials are triggered snowflakes, but the moment Boomer righteously becomes a term for derision, oh listen to those triggered snowflake Boomers scream in anguish!
As a Gen Xer, I can’t stand Boomers or Millennials.
There are 2 types of boomer. Those who just fall into the age demographic (no one has a problem with them) & then there is ‘the fucking boomer’ – white coiffed hair, dripping in gold, International holidays every season & 4 property rentals. These Boomers took their boomer cradle to grave privilege & fucked the rest of us with a user pays neoliberalism that has locked every younger generation out of home ownership.
If Boomers are angry at how their generational name has been turned into a joke, wait until they realise that by 2023 they will for the first time ever be a smaller voting demographic than Gen X & Millennial’s combined and that those Gen Xers and Millenials will be as unforgiving as a Boomer at an auction when it comes to death tax and inheritance duties to fund affordable housing.
All us Gen Xers and Millennials want is the same state subsidisation of our lives that the Boomers enjoyed before the Boomers pulled the ladder up behind them by voting in neoliberal Governments.
Luckily for the Boomers the Millennials are all too busy canceling each other and policing micro aggressions to be politically effective, but make no mistake, judgement day via death duties and inheritance tax for all that untaxed capital gain is coming.
Increasingly having independent opinion in a mainstream media environment which mostly echo one another has become more important than ever, so if you value having an independent voice – please donate here.
If you can’t contribute but want to help, please always feel free to share our blogs on social media.
Ricardo obviously has no respect for those he is supposed to represent. In the last government we had Genter as a minister of Transport and while in power did nothing for motorists .
Motorists may be the majority in numbers, but they are also the biggest problem regarding gridlock in cities, and the squandering of our resources. Get real.
She did not to get people out of their cars either. Wellington bus a disaster here in Chch new routes increased fares and a drop of in patrons. Auckland no light rail . Cell phone use no increase in fine still $80 . She was usless .
Trevor – Ricardo certainly appears disrespectful, but he’s a young gay Mexican guy, and if he’s been socially immersed in Auckland’s LGBTQ Green community, it may be a big ask to expect him to to have cultural sensitivity towards the wider community. The b word is a dopey word, but it’s working for the Greens – another socially divisive clique, more’s the pity.
Consider who may err in assuming that all boomers had their homes handed to them on a privileged platter.
Not so. Many worked hard, and sacrificed a lot, to acquire their own place, and while they were busy doing so, the ferrets snuck into the fowl house. Ricardo looks just like any other identity politics twerp with too selective a view of this country’s history. That’s what suits some of them, and there are worse than this laddie.
Snow White: “Ricardo looks just like any other identity politics twerp with too selective a view of this country’s history.”
Yup. He’s another young prat. I doubt he knows anything about the history of NZ, beyond the woke version he’ll have heard from other Greenies and the like.
He vividly illustrates why I earnestly hoped that the Greens wouldn’t return to parliament. And if they did, they’d be politically impotent. At least my latter wish was granted.
However. He’s now an MP in a representative democracy. His job is to represent us all. If he can’t open his mouth without inserting his foot into it, I give him Keith Holyoke’s famous advice: breathe through your nose for your first term.
It will be too late Martyn, the boomers will burn the planet to the ground before we can get the death taxes from their sorry asses.
The boomers who you deride started the Green Party long before it was hijacked, passionate about the environment, and the planet, as more than just a place to grow pot.
Nonsensical and cheap crap, sorry to say that.
Just ringing the bell to generate Pavlov’s reflex in some small minds?
Or what?
Jeez
Talk about identity politics!
Who brought in nuclear free NZ?
The Norm kirk govt?, protested the Vietnam war and began the focus on environmental destruction and climate change?
I’m a boomer..and brought up 4 kids on my own in an unfinished house without electricity ,while working for peanut wages under the ever heating sun
The last child had left home before I could afford to get the power on
I’m still a bottom feeder when it comes to cars,I don’t think I have a god given right to travel overseas every year,I have always voted green, and own one property that took an immense sacrifice in immediate pleasures to freehold.
To say you hate millennials and boomers is to declare yourself a sectarian bigot
Well done, Francesca, you’re a great person – few politicos could have done what you did.
Thanks Snow White
There were plenty others like me who lived on the smell of an oily rag, and strangely , quite happily!
It was possible then, but not now, with the low wages, high cost of living, no ceilings on rents, and home ownership beyond the grasp of many.
Bringing up four children without electricity is pretty heroic – probably real nappies too! I had no washing machine or drier with my first, used buckets and a clothesline, with routines that panned out ok, but it is hard for working mums – getting children off to daycare at very early hours, and dependant on public transport to get to work on time, the stress loads can be high.
I thought his tweet was cute, really. It was a play on words, ffs.
also that grey power dude that told everybody to vote no to the cannabis referendum is a total fungus face and I hope he’s not a boomer because
not ok 🙁
“….then there is ‘the fucking boomer’ – white coiffed hair, dripping in gold, International holidays every season & 4 property rentals.”
You do realise, don’t you, that anyone born before 1946 isn’t a boomer? The description you give sounds like somebody older than me, and I was born very soon after the war. Come to that, John Key’s a boomer.
Rogernomics was foisted on us older boomers by the previous generation. We were the ones disproportionately whacked about the ears by it.
That March fellow comes across as bitter and rancorous. As do many of his contemporaries, of course. But it’s pointless blaming previous generations for how things are now.
Everyone – young and old – needs to remember that nobody chooses, either to be born, or the timing of their birth. We all must make the best of the hand that we’re dealt in that regard.