The 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.

  • raven [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Could you blame us though? After years of "you'll understand when you're older and get more conservative" it starts to feel a little patronizing. I think there's some serious age-ism going on in the US and it isn't primarily pointed at older people. Younger people are almost entirely unrepresented in government and our interests are not being seen to. I'm not saying it's because they're old and their brains have shriveled or whatever, but their material conditions do not align them with young peoples' interests in a lot of cases.

    Climate change and social program apathy are forms of ageism as far as I'm concerned. Where's that student debt bail out? I'm going to have negative wealth for some time, just because I decided to get an education and be a more effective worker.