15 November 2019
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The meaning of “ok boomer”
Aryeh Cohen-Wade and Daniel Kaufman analyze the meme that young people are using to dismiss their elders.
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In this video:
- Explaining the wildly popular “ok boomer” meme
- Why Dan is both critical of and sympathetic toward “ok boomer”
- The Marxist critique of woke capitalism
- Twitter users offer bad life advice given by Boomers
- Do today’s young people have a chip on their shoulders?
- Dan: We’re still trying to develop a theoretical understanding of the Internet
- Why do college students seem to be more afraid of debate?
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