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Age discrimination: A gray mass that almost fills younger people with disgust

2022-08-13T14:03:28.494Z


In our system only those who can perform, multiply and be active have value. People who are viewed as old are often forgotten in debates about justice and empowerment.


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Age is the blind spot in the increasingly heated debate on justice and participation

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Amazingly, it's been ten years since short-term icon of the diversity and body-positive movement Beth Ditto judged Madonna the musician.

For one-hit wonder Dito, Madonna was embarrassing and acting inappropriately.

Which is a very narrow-minded and also discriminatory message for an artist who describes herself as non-conformist.

The only thing that has changed in the last twelve years about contempt for the elderly is that it is now completely legitimate.

Age.

The blind spot in the increasingly heated justice and participation debate.

In a better world, respect and equal conditions should apply to all people, to all genders, skin colors, sexual orientations, body shapes.

For everyone except people read as ALT by young people.

This is relative.

And always means the panicked defense of one's own future, which means that one's own mortality is unreasonable.

All the shitstorms of the past have never been directed against a person who would have made disparaging comments about older people.

The winners, the losers

Contempt for a large group of people who are seen as not belonging.

Who are labeled as vulnerable and may patronize for their own good.

To be mocked, to be ignored.

who are disadvantaged in the labor market.

In the allocation of housing, the wonderful world of capitalist participation.

If people are obviously old, they walk more slowly, if they get older, if they aren't cool, they are often completely pushed out of social life.

Deported by their relatives, condemned to a life of loneliness - and often poverty.

The worldwide system with no alternative has done a great job and divided people into winners and losers.

The losers include people who are disadvantaged because of their gender, their place of birth or the color of their skin or their physical disposition.

Large groups of men and women are forgotten in the vigilant, sensitive society.

The older.

Not millionaires.

Not CEOs, not board members.

Are the harbingers of their own decay.

A gray mass that almost fills younger people with disgust, unless you're accidentally related to them or they're 50 Cent.

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Who hinder the fast step, who are Nazis, can't install an app, have ruined the planet and who are only good for putting on funny clothes on TikTok.

They are disrespectfully called grandma or grandpa, even without being related to them, regardless of whether they are by fact, and thus showing that one does not yet belong to the large group of diaper wearers who no longer create capitalist added value .

One avoids them as if they had a contagious disease, thereby showing that one has done one's capitalist homework well.

Value in our system is what can perform, multiply and be active.

You don't notice the large mass of older women and men.

Gladly from low-wage countries that clean, maintain, have raised children, have worked crookedly,

the thinkers were or still are.

You talk to them slowly and show your kindness by helping them across the street, whether they want it or not,

The new sensitive people in the western world seem one thing above all: opportunistic.

Instead of striving for true equal treatment for all, many stick with Beth Ditto.

Demanding the privilege of respect for oneself, refusing any marginalization and discrimination, demanding recognition for one's own weaknesses, illnesses and outsider positions, and devaluing a large part of the population.

The old white men, for example (and yes, I know that crappy term stands for power and privilege, only it has since become established as a universal term of contempt, like the boomers).

So.

The old white men who toil in the slaughterhouses and factories, who repair roads, the old women who clean trains, who work in nursing, who have done dirty jobs their whole lives, you can call yourself a racist, sexist, classist person out, despise.

Supported by the media.

A traffic accident, a dead woman lying alone in the apartment.

Is it important for readers to be concerned that a victim was over 70?

And doesn't every death leave a tear in the world?

Are young people loved more, missed more because they still have a life of wage labor ahead of them?

As long as non-members of marginalized groups who subscribe to the legitimate demand for justice continue to discriminate against a group of people, their idea of ​​a just world remains in doubt.

Source: spiegel

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