'OK boomer' is whitewashing today's generation gap | Opinion

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Love it or hate it, the viral meme fails to take into account a key element in the generational conflict: race.

Never before in the history of this country has the racial and ethnic makeup of the older generation differed so greatly from the demographic makeup of the younger population.

In the Democratic primary, news outlets and debate moderators are focusing almost exclusively on the candidates' ages. After all, the youngest and oldest candidates span about a 40-year generation gap. This, however, fails to consider the interplay between race and age. There is a nearly 20 percentage point gap between younger and older Americans on support for laws protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination. That generational gap holds for both whites and African Americans. However, the Buttigieg campaign and the reporters covering it failed to see how race and age interact—and instead treated African Americans as a monolith.

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