Comment Re: Aging population (Score 3) 181
I'm going to assume that you probably, just as me, grew up when a boomer was no more than someone born in the generation post WWII, my parents for example.
There's nothing bigoted about that, we just give funny names to different generations
The issue is that as language as evolved, as it always will, it now took a meaning more of an old person with calcified ideas (you can find that kind of person at any age group). I've seen it being used in pretty much the opposite of the "get off my lawn" and to be more of a "yeyeah grampa, go take care of your lawn and shake your cane, we have things to do"
As we see more of this usage, the more it will be bigoted, specially in context of ill intentions and/or willful ignorance.