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Let’s stop being ageist.
Removed by modThe assumption that old people are inherently right wing and young people are inherently left wing is just wrong. Correlating age with political beliefs is a fucking pseudoscience, and so is the whole concept of generations like boomers and zoomers. Their marketing terms, the baby boom was a uniquely United States thing and to apply that term to 20 odd years of people from across the world is just factually wrong. We got to stop self identifying with these terms because they are ageist and they divide us and they allow for shitty excuses like “it’s just their generation” to excuse shitty behavior.
What’s the point of this? Stop dunking on old people. Old people aren’t inherently reactionary.
No it’s not, it’s statistical analysis of demographic trends.
If I meet an old person, it is fact that they are more likely to be more conservative than if I meet a young person. I think a lot of the cause is just survivorship bias - Poor people die younger. But the fact remains, any random old person I meet is more likely to hold homophobic, racist, misogynist, and classist views than a young person.
But also older people grew up in a different world than exists now, and won’t be around to experience what’s to come. If you’re over the age of 65 you don’t have the same stake in something like climate change as I have, which is the main reason I don’t want anyone over that age in any elected office, as climate change is by far and away the most important issue at hand.
This is the part that's so dumb. You're just making enemies with random people for the heck of it. It's pointless finger pointing and othering for no reason.
They did give a good reason though
Where have I seen this before...
...uh oh.
You’re right, we should completely ignore that white people are also more likely to be wealthy and conservative. Demographic factors aren’t relevant to political beliefs. Silly me.
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boomers are dead even in that graph.
the desire to prejudge and categorize people without having to speak to them or evaluate them properly is useful for the right but counterproductive for the left.