Boomers. How can anyone not grasp that? It's as if the insult is like water to fish, so people don't even perceive it.

Is calling someone boomer an insult in itself?

I get that saying “boomer ruined the world for all the generations afterwards” is an insult, but the word itself is now considered an insult?

Genuinely asking here; the constantly shifting landscape of what one is allowed to say when talking to US Americans is a bit hard for me to navigate and I currently only have online discourse as guidepost (which is like 1000% more toxic)

	▲	jibal an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Your question is disingenuous, as the word "boomer" didn't appear isolated with no context. The statement was "the baby acts like a boomer", which clearly has a pejorative connotation--you yourself recognized this when you asked "Which demographic was casually insulted here? The babies/third children?" ... it's not even possible to think that babies are being insulted without thinking that saying they're like boomers is insulting. As I said, that seems to be an unquestioned assumption. As I said elsewhere, there is no single way that boomers behave. Boomers are simply people born in the post-war boom, from 1946-1964, and they display a huge range of traits. Virtually all statements referring to boomers collectively that aren't purely statistical are pejorative--ageist bigotry. > what one is allowed to say This oft repeated nonsense is bad faith. You're allowed to say whatever you want, and people are allowed to respond. I've said my piece and won't engage further.