Jennifer Still
Twitter users have dragged an article published in the New York Post which claimed that millennials’ dislike of the Baby Boomer generation is “totally unjustified” and that Boomers are actually the best generation ever.
The article, written by Steve Cuozzo, seems to be a direct response to the “OK Boomer” trend popping up online and even on sweatshirts, but it also seems as overly defensive to the point of downright ridiculousness, and everyone on Twitter really seems to be getting a kick out of how out-of-touch Cuozzo seems to be.
I cannot overstate how embarrassing this article is.
“if they spent more time studying actual history, which can’t easily be found on iPhones, they’d know that boomers were, and remain, the most socially and environmentally conscious generation America ever has ever known.” https://t.co/Pu0uLlLrOO
— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) November 2, 2019
“If they spent more time studying actual history, which can’t easily be found on iPhones, they’d know that boomers were, and remain, the most socially and environmentally conscious generation America ever has ever known,” Cuozzo writes at one point.
There are two kinds of boomers: those who get to retire at 63 and those who will work until we’re 80. Because we forgot to get behind the Reagan Devolution.
— StandingOnFishes, Booing (@ChoyingPalmo) November 3, 2019
He added at another point, “Boomers also won the Cold War against Communist tyranny and along the way brought us unprecedented prosperity and technological innovation. The latter includes the made-in-USA digital revolution that brought forth the gadgets without which millennials couldn’t get out of bed.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Twitter millennials and Gen Z’ers had a field day with this article on Twitter, calling out the blatant inaccuracies and downright absurd (and almost Trumpian in their ridiculousness) comments made in the piece.
Bruh who studies history without using their iPhone wtf
— CondescendingCuck (@CondescendCuck) November 2, 2019
“Is the author unaware of Wikipedia, ebooks, full access to the internet and libraries, all accessible from iPhones?” one user commented.
Another wrote, “Imagine typing this out on your windows 97 desktop and smugly smiling to yourself. ‘This will convince those millennials to stop hurting my feelings,’ you say to yourself.”
imagine typing this out on your windows 97 desktop and smugly smiling to yourself. “this will convince those millennials to stop hurting my feelings”, you say to yourself,
— natale (@natebellito) November 2, 2019
While obviously not all of the world’s problems are down to Boomers, the fact that that entire generation refuses to take any responsibility for the way things are now is a bit silly.
Is the author unaware of Wikipedia, ebooks, full access to the internet and libraries, all accessible from iPhones?
— Scott (@ScottKarasick) November 2, 2019
Have millennials and Gen Z’ers gone overboard in their hatred of their elders? Maybe, but when their defense comes in the form of an article like Cuozzo’s, it’s not really that hard to understand.