Word: ageism
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...sentry wearing a surgical mask. Another guideline called for "parity" at all conference events. Thus half of all committee members had to be "lesbians of color," 20% had to be lesbians with disabilities and at least 5% of the members "old lesbians" (definition: "over 50 with a history of ageism activism"). In some areas, however, organizers abandoned any effort to find common ground. Because vegetarians and carnivores alike were attending the conference, no food at all was available for sale...
...innocuous-looking blue door lies a Hillel in a handbasket. Especially shameful is the organization's insistence on masquerading as a group dedicated to upholding an ethical and moral tradition. These P.C. inquisitors are on the lookout to attack anyone who disagrees with them, accusing them of racism, sexism, ageism, and anything else they can think of, regardless of Truth. It's about time we attacked back. Jennifer L. Cooper...
...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...
...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...