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Which boomers? All of them? I don't think so...
Looking at your other comments it's clear you are taking comments like boomers personally against your parents. You shouldn't. When we make fun or blame them it's not one person's actions, but society allowing those actions to culminate in how it's turned out.
It's how our parents said they wanted the best for us, but then the generation as a whole has voted time and time against things that we desperately need. Housing issues, cost of living, wage gaps, cost of college, things that the generation did take advantage of. And hey, it's not bad that they got to take advantage of it, but it's the "pulling the ladder up" after them. Doing things like using social security while trying to defund unemployment.
So no, of course it's not all of them, and it may not be your parents, but it's the people who have benefited from programs that now want to remove those programs. That's why we get mad when they say we're being too loud, or complaining - it's because we just wanted the same deal they got.
My mom grew up poor too, and she has been on unemployment more than once trying to support us. She's a huge proponent of these systems being continued for the next generation. That's what parents should be doing, trying to give their kids even more protections, not trying to take them away
They were boomers, and boomers are all these negative stereotypes, so how not to take it personally?
You say something like "women can't drive, but don't take it personally if you're a good female driver". Honestly I can't fathom how people can't see that it might be wrong to negatively stereotype groups of the population by something they did not choose. We've grown to recognise sexism, racism etc. but apparently we're still in the 1950s of ageism.
Too bad she's a boomer, though.