Aren't you using 'young' in a similar way, Joe?
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Joseph Duemer
> Sent: 27 March 2007 16:29
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> Subject: Re: David Hicks
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> It is also a common political dismissal by the uninformed
> young, some of whom assume that "boomers" are too morally &
> politically corrupt to have valid political opinions. Most
> often used by self-rightous young leftists.
> Even if the phrase itself were merely descriptive, making the
> broad assumption that someone "must be a Baby Boomer" because
> he holds a particular political opinion is offensive in
> itself, as well as intellectually lazy. Hell, it doesn't even
> come up to the level of lazy.
>
> jd
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