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William Shatner takes 'entitled' millennials to task in heated Twitter exchange, calls one a [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | November 7, 2019 | Tim Stickings

Posted on 11/07/2019 6:54:46 AM PST by C19fan

Star Trek actor William Shatner waded into a generational row last night as he took aim at the catchphrase 'OK Boomer' and feuded with a Twitter user who had blamed older people for millennial 'hardships'.

The jibe 'OK Boomer' has become popular among millennials and the younger Generation Z, who use it to show exasperation with older people and their opinions.

One Twitter user aimed it at Shatner yesterday but the Hollywood veteran, who was born in 1931, fired back: 'Sweetheart, that's a compliment for me.'

Warming to his theme, Shatner said he would 'wear that badge with honor' and embarked on a heated row with a millennial user, eventually calling her 'divaesque'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: boomers; millenials; shatner; twitter
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As a Generation Xer we are so insignificant Millenials and Zers don't even consider us worthy of their insults.
1 posted on 11/07/2019 6:54:46 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Millenials need to Get a Life!


2 posted on 11/07/2019 6:55:11 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I always thought the best put down of a Boomer is “from the generation who claimed they should not trust anyone over 30”.


3 posted on 11/07/2019 6:56:00 AM PST by C19fan
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If he was born in 1931, Shatner is NOT a Boomer. He is of the Silent Generation, as was my own father born in 1936.


4 posted on 11/07/2019 6:56:20 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire. Notice, this is not an impeachment vote. It is a continuat)
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To: C19fan

SOONER!


5 posted on 11/07/2019 6:56:27 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan; Drew68

As a Millenial myself, all I can say is, I blame the Boomers Parents :)


6 posted on 11/07/2019 6:56:36 AM PST by KC_Lion
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Millennial are the target demographic of the socialist democraps this 2020 election. 60% don’t have a life and would just love to know the Boomers will continue to take care of them.


7 posted on 11/07/2019 6:56:51 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


8 posted on 11/07/2019 6:57:15 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: C19fan

“divaesque”

Triggered!!


9 posted on 11/07/2019 6:57:19 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-)
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Who is going to take care of the Millennial babies when the Boomers are gone?


10 posted on 11/07/2019 6:57:26 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Which is exactly his point.


11 posted on 11/07/2019 6:58:31 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: C19fan

Media love to gin up generation gaps.


12 posted on 11/07/2019 6:59:20 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: KC_Lion

As a boomer, I blame Teddy Roosevelt, the Ross Perot of his generation, for the mess we are in. If not for him, Woodrow Wilson would not have been elected.


13 posted on 11/07/2019 7:03:39 AM PST by erkelly
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To: backwoods-engineer

That’s why he takes it as a compliment. 8>)


14 posted on 11/07/2019 7:04:00 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: C19fan

Noticed that, huh? I like to think it’s because we’ll still destroy their protected world view with irrefutable logic, and if pushed hard enough will kick their snowflake asses.


15 posted on 11/07/2019 7:04:41 AM PST by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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50% +/- of the millennials and the younger Generation Z should have been aborted. Those portions are worthless, lowlife, crap, lazy, self-entitled, garbage, trash, filth, junk and dogsh•t. How many are commies, socialists, anarchists, leftists and demonkkkRATs is open to discussion.


16 posted on 11/07/2019 7:07:57 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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Wonder who’s fueling all of this.

To me this just looks like more Leftist class warfare designed to divide our country.


17 posted on 11/07/2019 7:07:59 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Part of the problem of break down of our society is younger gens are spoiled snots and have lost the practice of respecting their elders.

The other part of the problem is many elders still act like spoiled children.


18 posted on 11/07/2019 7:11:23 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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What the hell do they know? Hey, get the F off my lawn.


19 posted on 11/07/2019 7:13:26 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: C19fan

20 posted on 11/07/2019 7:14:40 AM PST by Spruce
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