Word: ageism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mainly three bad consequences of affirmative action. First is that the Blacks get to thinking in negative terms, in terms of what they suffered, instead of in terms of what they can contribute to American life. And second, the air is filled with accusations of racism, or sexism, or ageism, or some other - "-ism," and this poisons the atmosphere. Affirmative action makes that kind of accusation institutional and routine. A third objection I have is that affirmative action has been widened from its origin in the Civil Rights Act to include groups like women. Hispanics, and others who haven...
...tendency to view the elderly as a burden or a stereotyped group. He does not feel complimented when someone tells him: "My, you don't look your age." Inwardly, he grumps, "How am I expected to look? Toothless and doddering, a caricature of my younger self?" Pepper assails "ageism" as "just as wrong as racism or sexism...
Mahoney: Well, let me go back to the position that I've been taking on platforms up and down the country on this issue. We've made some progress in this country as far as racism, some progress on sexism, but we've done nothing as far as ageism is concerned. We are now in a new period. The demographics indicate that within the next twenty years we'll have something on the order of 17 or 18 percent of the men and women of this country who are 65 or over, not 60 but 65 or over...
...made some progress in this country as far as racism and sexism, but we've done nothing as far as ageism is concerned. --Thomas H.D. Mahoney...
...Book Store four years ago for a forum on sexism, which he said had "a real impact" on him. Now Morse, who describes himself as a part-time radical, comes in search of hard-to-find left-wing literature. "I came looking for an article on Ageism [discrimination against the elderly] and I found one. There aren't many of these around," he added...