OK RIGHT-WING BOOMER

Host Jonathan Wolfman sheds light on his own generation the baby boomers specifically right-wing men baby boomers who think a belief in climate change or even just caring about the environment is no only emasculating but is somehow feminine.

Jonathan Wolfman also sheds the light and asks the question of why are grown, boomer men, attacking a teenage Swedish environmental activist named Greta Thunberg.

Don't let Right-winger Boomer men distract us from the real enemy: elites who capitalized on inequality.

“Ok boomer”  has taken off as a recognizable part of Internet vernacular more recently, especially on Gen Z-dominated social media platforms It’s a casual two-word phrase, but it’s packed with meaning: It represents young Americans’ exhaustion with having to counter dubious narratives of how they’re unprecedentedly narcissistic or sensitive or entitled or lazy. It’s also a conversation-ending rejoinder, dismissing the statement at hand as unworthy of engagement or rebuttal. The message is resonating to the point that some teens are making thousands of dollars off selling “ok boomer” merchandise. And its dismissiveness seems to be getting under the skin of many older Internet users—conservative radio host Bob Lonsberry called it the “n-word of ageism” in a now-deleted tweet (which received countless “ok boomer” replies in response).

When a middle-aged man records himself complaining about how kids these days all suffer from “Peter Pan syndrome,” one of those kids will remix the video to include themselves scribbling an “ok boomer” sign while bearing an impish grin. When a Baby Boomer columnist blames millennials for killing the power lunch with their addiction to smartphones, he’ll get barraged with “ok boomer” replies on Twitter. When old people say absurd things about how marijuana melts the brains of the youth: “ok boomer."

But “ok boomer” has quickly evolved into more than just a comeback. It also appears to represent a broader left-leaning ethos of anger, if not rage, over the daunting circumstances that young Americans have been born into. On social media posts, “ok boomer” is a meme and hashtag often tied to concerns about catastrophic climate change, inequality, racism, misogyny, student debt, and increases in the cost of living. There’s even a viral “ok boomer” song in which college student Jonathan Williams sings: “You're all old and racist / All about the fakeness / I'm tryna pay my bills but I'm all on the waitlist.” Later in the verse, Williams refers to MAGA hats as fascist, and expresses disdain for nationalism: “Say America again, I'm gonna take a piss.”

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