SHORTHAND FOR OK BOOMER? OK, B

Can we finally stop the OK Boomer fun? What’s it been, a week, a month, ten years, since it first came out?

Let’s clean it up a little, maybe cut a syllable to a simple “Ok, B.”

Baby boomers don’t want to tax the time others take to say something as clever as “Ok, boomer.” Besides, is it really that clever?

Anyone who’s been paying attention knows how hard it is growing up in America. With all of the freedom and clean air, we start from the same place with the same potential: In America You Can Be Whoever You Dare To Be!

Can I get an “Ok B” for that mistaken idea?

Unless you’ve been living under an organic rock, you know about the problems America faces every day. We’ve got people struggling to get into the game, while others are born on third base; some people take their swings in the batter’s box and never make it to first base, while others score without picking up a bat.

When new-money celebrities get caught forging their kids into the same private schools old-money blue bloods send their inbred offspring, you know it’s not fair.

Legacy students tend to be wealthy and white, students who, as a group, are already disproportionately represented at college. The New York Times found that, at five Ivy League schools, Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Penn and Brown, as well as 33 other colleges, there are more students from families in the top one percent than from the entire bottom 60 percent.

It’s not boomers who are ruining things by hoarding all of the resources, good jobs, and vacation time; it’s their kids who accept such blatantly bad behavior as a role to model.

The top earners and top inheritors want what’s best for their kids, just like I do and you do, except they have different resources. Young Frederick isn’t going to junior college; instead, Harvard is his stepping off point to a professional career bolstered by admittance to a prestigious law school, medical school, or business school.

“OK Boomer” isn’t fair

Imagine a student who dragged through a good school only to decide to make pottery, live on a commune, and chant. We all know kids from college who blew up in the freshman dorm life section of higher education. They dropped out, or graduated first, then dropped out. How many C students without a famous name, or legacy status, get into Harvard Medical School?

Average GPA: 3.9 (MSAR reports a 3.93 median total GPA and science GPA)

The problem is that these young people keep accepting help from their families. Once these kids stop excelling enough for their boomer parents to ignore them like the rest of ignore our kids, civility will return and there will be no need for saying “Ok Boomer.”

If you can’t wait that long, and the term is too offensive, try pretending you are deaf, or hard of hearing, the next time you hear it. What? You want me to repeat what I just said? You don’t have to pretend you can’t hear?

OK, B?