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Aren't you using 'young' in a similar way, Joe? P > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Joseph Duemer > Sent: 27 March 2007 16:29 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: David Hicks > > 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