Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts asks if "OK boomer" is age discrimination (USA Today)

[demosthenes]

I don't see what was wrong with his question. I would expect them to ask questions like this.

And in a hiring context for an older person? Yea I think saying "Ok boomer" would be an insanely shitty thing to say to them.

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This.

 

[Dyle]

Makes perfect sense in context and would definitely be an example of age discrimination. Is there any hope that SCOTUS' decision might result in the law changing such that people below the age of 40 could sue for it?

 

[Camwi]

Its so hard to be an old white man.

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Woman. And I don't know if it mentions what her race is.

 

[Deleted member 43]

This was a perfectly reasonable question in context.

 

[CitizenVectron]

In this case, yes it absolutely amounts to discrimination. It's fine to joke I guess, but in a professional environment there are lines that shouldn't be crossed.

 

[sgtnosboss]

yeah it is, and yeah I am fine with it. Its the generation that F'd the rest of us and is actively still trying to.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

Yes, saying out loud "I'm not considering the candidate because they are young/old/male/female/black/white/Christian/Muslim" is illegal in all 50 states. LGBT, ymmv.

 

[Don Fluffles]

Shut up and drink your prune juice.
Boomer.

 

[Zomba13]

Unrelated and completely off-topic, but I'm curious about your username. Is it to do with Zomba records or Zomba, Malawi, or something else entirely?

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Unrelated, a random one off bad guy in Outlaw Star was called Zomba and I thought the name was cool as a kid so took it.

 

[Deleted member 9305]

Shit all over millennials from their parasitic and privileged position, get called out and use said position to play the victim hood card. Way to go full circle.

 

[WascallyWabbit]

If you got angry at the title you need to read the story
If you got angry at the story then you need to check yourself, it's perfectly reasonable in context to ask this

 

[FriskyCanuck]

Stupid clickbait journalism, making a meme the focus of the article instead of you know, the actual case.

Asking the important questions...

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Yes, because that's literally his job.

 

[SugarNoodles]

Reminder that this is the trash can that ruled that it was impossible for policy to be racist when the underwriter's manual in Chicago stated that property value decreased according to how many black people lived in the area.

 

[EloquentM]

I decided not to read and be angry.

 

[molnizzle]

Clickbait thread title. We're better than this.

 

[Omegasquash]

I decided not to read and be angry.

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Concur.

It's best to keep our insight to, at maximum, 280 characters and react accordingly*

*accordingly in this case meaning what I think will sound cool