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It's a right wing epithet, a play on 'ok boomer'. It's proven a rhetorically effective insult for teachers/school officials who seem to be obsessed with discussing sex ed with very young children. Now it's banned on Twitter and other social media platforms.

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If it's a play on 'ok boomer' one would expect it to be less offensive. 'Groomer' is categorically a terrible thing to be, often borderline criminal (if not outright) with implications of sexual abuse. Boomer, on the other hand, is more exasperation than dislike (after all, boomers are our parents/grandparents, they're hardly a group we're going to truly condemn in our personal lives).

The right wing have a habit of making their slogans more extreme.

Lol, it was bound to happen when even mainstream media began casually labelling a good third of the country white supremacists, racists, and the (other) dreaded N-word, simply for demanding IDs to vote or for insisting that borders should probably be enforced.

Sure, that's /totally/ all y'all did.

Define "right wing" and I might be able to comment.

Could say conservatives or traditionalists, but those labels only invite further sub-grouping (eg: do you mean economic or social conservatives?). I'll settle for defining "right wing" as anyone who decries "wokeism"; people who claim to want small government but actually just want to impose anti-progressive laws from a big government; people who think Critical Race Theory (a univesity-level legal analysis) is being taught in schools; etc. Effectively, just look at Trump's voter base for the definition of right wing.

Why would you expect it to be less offensive? They're accusing school officials, teachers, etc. of exposing children to sexually explicit material at too young an age to be ready for it. That's a core component of grooming. Whether they're right or not is another matter - but their intent is to cast these people as abusers.

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