The 'boomers' and the favor that a sector of the right is doing to the PSOE and the PP

Four months ago I warned here about the direction that a sector of the right in Spain is taking, and who benefits from that direction.

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The stupidity of criticizing millions of Spaniards for their age

In that article I referred to the subject of the "boomers", a word that some young people on the right and the far right often use to disdain the "baby boomers", that is, people born between 1946 and 1964. It is common for these gestures of contempt to be made by some young people without much insight, launching expletives on Twitter or Telegram. After all, many people write the first nonsense that comes to mind, sometimes just to get attention.

The problem comes when, after some people laugh at the joke, these silly things end up sneaking into an article published in a serious media outlet, a digital newspaper that, according to the foundation that promotes it, aims to give "the cultural battle to the left-wing ideological agenda promoted by organizations such as the São Paulo Forum and the Puebla Group and aims to become a journalistic reference in all Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries." The article in question begins as follows:

"The búmer (better than boomer), born during the baby boom in the years of developmentalism, is the main obstacle to promoting real change in Spain."

From there, the author launches into a series of value judgments about many people simply because they are of a certain age. One of the most basic things I learned when studying philosophy in high school is that generalizations are always unfair and, furthermore, false. Well, the author of that article has filled nine paragraphs with generalizations, with a total of 770 words.

A strawman fallacy against liberal-conservatives

Among this torrent of generalizations, the author also sneaks in jabs at the liberal-conservative sector of the right. An example:

"The boomers stopped at the Berlin Wall and Normandy, they believe that the world is a Hollywood movie of good guys and bad guys and that globalism is communism. This state of mind (the Russians are coming!) keeps the left-right model created in 1945 afloat, which is why whoever wants to oust Sánchez must submit to the PP without complaint."

It is a clear, false and stupid reference to the approaches defended by many liberal-conservatives who support Vox, who are presented as defenders of the PP because potatoes, attributing to us falsehoods such as that of equating globalism and communism (the old straw man fallacy), adding references to the Berlin Wall and Normandy, as if the author was annoyed that we remember those who fought and died for freedom.

A misleading reference to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

The author also includes a few other things. For example, he attributes to the boomers the idea that "anyone who wants to stop the war in Ukraine is in the Kremlin's pay." However, the author does not explain how he wants to stop the war in Ukraine. Obviously, the Ukrainians are the first to want the invasion to end, but by kicking the invader out of their country, which is what anyone with a minimum of patriotism would want if their country were invaded.

On the contrary, some confuse "stopping the war" with forcing Ukraine to yield to Putin and give up part of its territory. This is the position defended by Russian puppets such as far-left parties, including Podemos. On the contrary, three months ago Vox reiterated its "support for Ukraine, for the defense of its national sovereignty and its territorial integrity", in the words of Vox MEP Jorge Buxadé, born (like me) in 1975. And I provide this information because now some may call us "boomers".

The precedent of Podemos's criticism of those over 45 years old

Anyway, I could go on commenting on the nonsense written in that article, but I don't have the time or the desire. I do want to remind you that the communists of Podemos already did this thing about criticising people for their age against those over 45 years old and even against those over 29. Ultimately, dividing society into good and bad based on age is not very different from the class struggle promoted by Marx or the struggle between the sexes promoted today by the left and supported by the useful idiots of so-called centrism.

Are generalizations 'objectively demonstrable facts'?

That such things are launched by a media outlet whose purpose is to wage "the cultural battle against the left-wing ideological agenda" is enough to make one throw one's hands up in horror. To top it off, the director of that serious media outlet has described this article as an "impeccable text" that "has been published as an opinion piece when it is an aseptic narration of objectively demonstrable facts." In other words, an article that begins by blaming millions of people for being "the main obstacle to promoting real change in Spain" because they are of a certain age is "impeccable" and "an aseptic narration of objectively demonstrable facts." Is this a joke or what?

I wonder what the next move will be. They started with the boomers: will it be the short ones, the fat ones, the short-sighted ones or the diabetics tomorrow? Since we are going to be throwing around stupid things and prejudging millions of people based on their age, why not do it also based on their height, their physique, their visual difficulties or their illnesses?

Some nonsense that does the PSOE and the PP a favor

I must warn you, though - so that you don't say later that nobody warned you - that with nonsense like that you are driving people away instead of gaining followers for the real right. Losing followers for saying reasonable things would have its merit. Losing them for swinging around and spouting nonsense is enough for the PSOE and the PP to pat you on the back.

And I say this because these messages favour the PSOE and the PP, and seem designed to leave the right without representation, turning it into a gang of freaks who compete among themselves to see who can come up with the biggest nonsense with which to get a minute of glory. Many good people - including many "boomers" - have worked very hard so that the conservative alternative to the two-party system would be successful in Spain, so now some people come to ruin it with such nonsense.

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Photo: JD Mason.