I love this channel, and starting my day with this video, it put me into this amazing open-hearted place where I long to unite with others to build something better whereas I am much more prone, normally, to angrily wish to tear the capitalist's world down.
There are humans born between 1945 and 1965 and there are "boomers". The 65 year old homeless woman isn't a boomer. No unhoused people are boomers. You're right in that I do hate a certain class of people categorically, but you're wrong that I haven't spent much time thinking about the details.
If you know what you're doing then it comes off as deliberate motte and bailey
it's such lib shit, they would rather get to be like "actually ur immature and toxic, I didn't mean literally all of that group" and feel superior than appeal to anyone who doesn't already get/use their favorite radlib jargon
oh god shut up
What is the safe opinion that I claim to now be defending? It's farcical to claim that my original position was that everyone over a certain age is bad. For the better part of a decade now "boomer" has been used to refer to a very specific type of person. Nobody could reasonably believe that it simply refers to everyone born in certain years.
Do you believe it's possible to perform a motte and bailey strategy without using these exact words?
No one reasonable would, but it was not a reasonable person who replied to this comment with 'not all men'. That's why you're catching shit. You doubled down hard.
I don't even understand what point you all are trying to make. What makes a boomer a boomer is that they've had all the advantages possible in life and still operate under the delusion that their hard work alone is what has afforded them their comfortable position. Words don't exist in a vacuum, they are contextual and the way I use "boomer" here is different than the way I'd use it in another context. I still say "not all men" is a perfect analogy. Most of my non-cismale friends have said, at one point, "men are trash". In that context, a bunch of non-cismen hanging out and having a casual discussion, it's assumed they aren't referring to all men, or really even most men, but a very specific type of man. Of course, every so often a cis man will butt his head into our conversation and offer up a "not all men". In this space, where all of us understand class politics, I feel like it should be understood that "boomer" means exactly what I've written. It should be obvious that being born between some arbitrary dates doesn't determine whether or not you're a capitalist. I don't understand how anyone who spent any amount of time here could honestly believe that someone here is an unironic supporter of generational politics. It really just seems like concern trolling to me and a huge waste of energy. But I guess a video titled, "We need to talk about elder-care" isn't going to get clicks and a post about that video isn't going to generate any engagement on hexbear, so we get to have a huge struggle session over it.
That is only true if you're terminally online. In meatspace, "boomer" still means "people who spend at least part of their childhood in the 60s."
You're kind of making my point for me, this IS a terminally online space.