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Originally Posted by Chris

Wind your neck in.

'Boomer' is a contraction of 'Baby Boomer' and is a perfectly reasonable and legitimate category used in population studies.

To answer you point by point:

1. No they didn't. The British population has been skyrocketing since the industrial revolution. In comparison to the rate of growth since 1800, deaths in both world wars barely register on the overall total. Yes, they contributed to a post-war baby boom, but 'rebuilt' is hyperbole.

2. They worked no harder and paid no more tax than anyone since. If you're trying to paint the baby boomer generation as somehow more virtuous than those that followed, then no, sorry, it won't wash. As for 'bought their houses'; well that's the exact point, isn't it. Economic conditions allowed them to do so in a way that is no longer possible in the UK. The pattern of property ownership amongst the postwar generation is a function of economics influenced by politics, not the protestant work ethic.

3. Not at issue.

4. A straw man.

5. Governments enact policies they put to voters at elections. It is well known that even today, policies are aimed squarely at boomers in retirement because they're the ones that vote in greatest numbers. Throughout their lives, the baby boomer generation (and, to be fair, some of the previous one, born in the 1930s and early 40s and too young to fight) have voted for policies that have preferred their interests.

Even implying that this issue is in any way equivalent to the prejudices faced by BAME citizens of the UK is very silly. The vast majority of these people came to the UK from the 1950s onwards to do the jobs boomers and their parents refused to, and have not shared in the wealth created in the UK in the second half of the 20th century in anything like the same way.

What a load of tosh you've written.

Of course current conditions have been influenced by politics - bad politics. And now those thieves want to tap the hard working socio-economic group born not too long after WW2.

Your point of view that "boomers" have voted for policies that have preferred their interest is totally disingenuous. Parties at the helm have changed hands so many times and that's because none of them deliver their policies, except possibly Thatcher.

You also misrepresent my reference to BAME. I obviously meant that you might as well attach another "B" to the term so that we are grouped into a minority that is being unfairly labelled and treated.

The term "baby boomer" is condescending and a convenience for political distinction. I don't like being grouped in that way and nor do any of my other acquaintances who have stopped to think about it.