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What's the problem with the 'boomers'?

When an older heckler was silenced with 'OK, boomer' by Chl枚e Swabrick, a 25-year-old MP from the Green Party in New Zealand, an internet meme was born. It鈥檚 become the phrase that millennials use to say the world they鈥檝e inherited is not okay. Jessica Yarmosky explains how the phrase highlights the generational divide over hot topics like climate change and gun control.

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