Discrimination
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Re: Discrimination
DominicJ wrote:Your aware of who you are.
I suspected from your spelling that you weren't long away from a place that was gripped by the modern craze of teaching phonetic English.I intend to know more next week than I do now, I dont see the connection, I see the connection your trying to draw, but its not there
If you listen, and notice when you read, you will learn about life and spelling. You're still young. We were all young once.
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When I was 24 years old I was still a hard core Thatcherite and believed that life was all about how much money you could make, so in realising that DominicJ is a lot younger than I thought, I feel like I should cut him some slack.
I remember in 1990 arguing on a pre-internet university bulletin board that capitalism was the only way to end poverty, and that socialism was the art of dragging everyone down to the lowest common denominator. I distinctly remember one of my friends replying "The trickle-down theory - it's crap!" which absolutely stung me to the core because I actually thought I'd invented the idea of trickle-down, and was dismayed to discover that the lefties all thought it was stupid and obscene!
And I thought the poll tax was an awesome idea. Why should four adults living in one house pay the same as a single old lady in the same house under the rates system? Surely it's entirely sensible that everyone should pay individually and at the same rate since we all produce rubbish and use roads etc? Of course I never knew the impact it was having on other people who'd never had to pay a tax before.
Most people seem to mellow their views and become less rigid about the rightness of their opinions when they get older, whether they start out on the left or the right of politics. My politics is now a blend of left and right, and mostly anti-authoritarian and anti-corporation - a far cry from my beliefs in my early twenties.
Of course, the downside of being older is that we feel an increasingly rigid intolerance of the rigid opinionated selfishness (and idealism) of the young(er).
Not that there's any hypocrisy there at all!
I remember in 1990 arguing on a pre-internet university bulletin board that capitalism was the only way to end poverty, and that socialism was the art of dragging everyone down to the lowest common denominator. I distinctly remember one of my friends replying "The trickle-down theory - it's crap!" which absolutely stung me to the core because I actually thought I'd invented the idea of trickle-down, and was dismayed to discover that the lefties all thought it was stupid and obscene!
And I thought the poll tax was an awesome idea. Why should four adults living in one house pay the same as a single old lady in the same house under the rates system? Surely it's entirely sensible that everyone should pay individually and at the same rate since we all produce rubbish and use roads etc? Of course I never knew the impact it was having on other people who'd never had to pay a tax before.
Most people seem to mellow their views and become less rigid about the rightness of their opinions when they get older, whether they start out on the left or the right of politics. My politics is now a blend of left and right, and mostly anti-authoritarian and anti-corporation - a far cry from my beliefs in my early twenties.
Of course, the downside of being older is that we feel an increasingly rigid intolerance of the rigid opinionated selfishness (and idealism) of the young(er).
Not that there's any hypocrisy there at all!-
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When I was 24 and campaigning door to door for CND, I remember one person saying "You'll never stop wars until you stop families falling out." Working now for the local Transition Town group, I feel as if I might be getting closer to the root cause of conflict - lack of empowerment, self-reliance and self-determination.
Mind you, one woman who answered the door all those years ago said "Oh, I can't talk about anything unless my husband is here" so I guess we, as a society, have seen some progress in the intervening years.
(Also, at that time and in the town in which I was then living, a nurse friend related that a woman had been admitted to hospital wearing a chastity belt - and her husband had refused to let it be taken off!
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Mind you, one woman who answered the door all those years ago said "Oh, I can't talk about anything unless my husband is here" so I guess we, as a society, have seen some progress in the intervening years.
(Also, at that time and in the town in which I was then living, a nurse friend related that a woman had been admitted to hospital wearing a chastity belt - and her husband had refused to let it be taken off!
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Starting in exactly one hour and 15 minutes!!!biffvernon wrote:You've started on those 14 pints of lager then?
I don't think Dominic is actually black, I think he was trying to say that age discrimination is no different from racial discrimination.
I could be wrong of course, but that is the impression I got.
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Eternal Sunshine wrote: I wouldn't want to worry you with the truth.
But we do as a society discriminate against younger people (and older - in different ways) both implicitly and explicitly. We have an age of consent, and different un/employment, training and pension rules for different ages. Young people in the armed forces do not leave boot camp as generals, no matter what their ability.Andy Hunt wrote:I think he was trying to say that age discrimination is no different from racial discrimination.
Meanwhile, my ability at 'doing things' is not what it once was, but my ability to 'know what to do' is far higher. I don't think it's quite the same as racism and sexism, because there are some valid/wise age-related discriminations, whereas no racism or sexism is okay, m'kay.