Stop bashing Boomers. We gave the world so much,OK?

BARACK OBAMA put his head above the parapet when he dared question uncompromising and judgmental woke attitudes recently. ‘The world is messy,’ he observed. ‘There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws.’

Cue a social media barrage of the maddening term now used as the verbal equivalent of selfsatisfied eyeball- rolling at your elders: ‘OK Boomer.’

The insult refers, of course, to Baby Boomers l i ke me born between 1946 and 1964. ‘ OK Boomer,’ chorus Generation X (those born 1965 to 1980), Generation Y (1981 to 1996) and Generation Z (1997 to 2012) to demonstrate that, in their opinion, Baby Boomers are, in no particular order; old, entitled, uncompassionate, intransigent and woefully out of touch.

Oh, and also, that Boomers don’t get it when they’re called out on social media for their privileged, complacent l i ves and prehistoric attitudes. Really?

I can’t personally claim credit for any of this since, during the pivotal years, I was still in my Chilprufe vest (maybe Google it, Millennials). But the generation now disparaged for not being woke fought for and welcomed: the legalisation of homosexuality, the 1965 Race Relations Act, the Abortion Act of 1967, the Equal Pay Act of 1970 and the founding of Greenpeace. A wave of social liberation that changed the world. But not impressive enough for the army of fortysomething commentators now rushing to join the condemnatory bandwagon, all desperate to be aligned with the OK Boomer crowd, as the closest thing, so far available, to an elixir of youth.