Word: ageism
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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...
...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...
Racism, sexism, and "ageism" are all linked, and current policies involving the elderly, while ignoring broader economic and social issues have failed to remove discrimination, Kuhn said...
...Ageism and Usefulness...
...first half of your Essay on ageism [March 24] represented an open mind, but you slipped into the closed mind of "vital use." The trap of our culture is believing that people can live if they are useful. What is important is not "being useful" but "being." We do not sell grandmothers' smiles in the local supermarket...