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#2350208 8-Nov-2019 13:40

Plastics not climate change??????? The impact plastics are having on the largest ecosystem on the planet is very much climate change.

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#2350210 8-Nov-2019 13:44

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Plastics not climate change??????? The impact plastics are having on the largest ecosystem on the planet is very much climate change.

Plastics don't overheat the planet

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#2350214 8-Nov-2019 13:53

So is Chloe Swarbrick’s “Okay Boomer” comment ageist?

Before answering, replace the word “Boomer” with one that has racial, gender, religious, etc undertones that categorises someone for the purpose of denigration. Maybe she just playing ‘us and them’ politics. Not what you should expect from a member of an ‘all inclusive’ political party.

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#2350228 8-Nov-2019 13:59

Dingbatt:

So is Chloe Swarbrick’s “Okay Boomer” comment ageist?

Before answering, replace the word “Boomer” with one that has racial, gender, religious, etc undertones that categorises someone for the purpose of denigration. Maybe she just playing ‘us and them’ politics. Not what you should expect from a member of an ‘all inclusive’ political party.

Yes. Nice opinion piece here today, which shows this to be the opposite of what you would assume.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/117259704/ok-kids--this-boomer-has-had-enough

"I worry that those who deploy "OK Boomer" are putting themselves down and signalling their own impotence."

Yes, this is from one who helps run our country. Where are you with Climate Change Green Party???? I see a lot of yakking and nothing to show for it

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#2350233 8-Nov-2019 14:11

tdgeek:
MikeB4:

Plastics not climate change??????? The impact plastics are having on the largest ecosystem on the planet is very much climate change.

Plastics don't overheat the planet

Global heating is just one symptom of many that is climate change.

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#2350235 8-Nov-2019 14:13

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So is Chloe Swarbrick’s “Okay Boomer” comment ageist?

Before answering, replace the word “Boomer” with one that has racial, gender, religious, etc undertones that categorises someone for the purpose of denigration. Maybe she just playing ‘us and them’ politics. Not what you should expect from a member of an ‘all inclusive’ political party.

I believe it is ageist and something that should not be coming from a member of the government. It puts Swarbrick down there with Winston Peters and Shane Jones. Very disappointing.

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#2350239 8-Nov-2019 14:19

Dingbatt:

So is Chloe Swarbrick’s “Okay Boomer” comment ageist?

Before answering, replace the word “Boomer” with one that has racial, gender, religious, etc undertones that categorises someone for the purpose of denigration. Maybe she just playing ‘us and them’ politics. Not what you should expect from a member of an ‘all inclusive’ political party.

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#2350259 8-Nov-2019 14:51

Dingbatt:

So is Chloe Swarbrick’s “Okay Boomer” comment ageist?

Before answering, replace the word “Boomer” with one that has racial, gender, religious, etc undertones that categorises someone for the purpose of denigration. Maybe she just playing ‘us and them’ politics. Not what you should expect from a member of an ‘all inclusive’ political party.

Definitely ageist and an attempt at putting down people older than herself. She is just another activist who only cares about herself.

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#2350262 8-Nov-2019 14:52

Dingbatt:

So is Chloe Swarbrick’s “Okay Boomer” comment ageist?

Before answering, replace the word “Boomer” with one that has racial, gender, religious, etc undertones that categorises someone for the purpose of denigration. Maybe she just playing ‘us and them’ politics. Not what you should expect from a member of an ‘all inclusive’ political party.

It is ageist but as pejoratives go, it seems pretty mild to me. Unlike some other words used for purposes of racial, gender, or religious denigration, which cause real hurt and can incite violence. As an officially elderly person (thus giving me a right to speak on the subject), I am not bothered by it at all. I would be very bothered if I was denied a job or other benefit solely because of my age, but getting indignant about being called an old fart seems pretty precious to me.

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#2350264 8-Nov-2019 14:58

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Dingbatt:

So is Chloe Swarbrick’s “Okay Boomer” comment ageist?

Before answering, replace the word “Boomer” with one that has racial, gender, religious, etc undertones that categorises someone for the purpose of denigration. Maybe she just playing ‘us and them’ politics. Not what you should expect from a member of an ‘all inclusive’ political party.

Definitely ageist and an attempt at putting down people older than herself. She is just another activist who only cares about herself.

She is off course younger and wiser, and I guess everyone else who is older is to blame.

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#2350266 8-Nov-2019 15:04

Rikkitic:

Dingbatt:

So is Chloe Swarbrick’s “Okay Boomer” comment ageist?

Before answering, replace the word “Boomer” with one that has racial, gender, religious, etc undertones that categorises someone for the purpose of denigration. Maybe she just playing ‘us and them’ politics. Not what you should expect from a member of an ‘all inclusive’ political party.

It is ageist but as pejoratives go, it seems pretty mild to me. Unlike some other words used for purposes of racial, gender, or religious denigration, which cause real hurt and can incite violence. As an officially elderly person (thus giving me a right to speak on the subject), I am not bothered by it at all. I would be very bothered if I was denied a job or other benefit solely because of my age, but getting indignant about being called an old fart seems pretty precious to me.

I think most old farts know more then she will ever know, as they grew up, in real time, with these issues. So many tale a genuine interest rtaher than grandstanding. But come in later with your microphone and tell everyone as you know better lol

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#2350436 8-Nov-2019 19:22

Heather says it rather well....not that I always agree with her verbal rants...

Heather- NZ Herald

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#2350467 8-Nov-2019 21:15

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Heather says it rather well....not that I always agree with her verbal rants...

Heather- NZ Herald

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#2351537 11-Nov-2019 12:26

Mahon:

Heather says it rather well....not that I always agree with her verbal rants...

Heather- NZ Herald

"Because at least boomers know what hard work is, unlike my soft-handed, entitled and whingeing fellow millennials."

My eyes have rolled so far back into my head that I'm pretty sure they aren't coming back.

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#2351544 11-Nov-2019 12:40

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Mahon:

Heather says it rather well....not that I always agree with her verbal rants...

Heather- NZ Herald

"Because at least boomers know what hard work is, unlike my soft-handed, entitled and whingeing fellow millennials."

My eyes have rolled so far back into my head that I'm pretty sure they aren't coming back.

Similar to that boomers, once born, plotted their devious plans to be rich, and to scuttle future generations? Its consistent seeing them classed as selfish and evil. That's also worth a hefty roll

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