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Noting that different age groups tended to vote differently is not the problem. Nor is trying to understand why they voted how they did. It's the denigration
by crusso 10y ago
Noting that different age groups tended to vote differently is not the problem. Nor is trying to understand why they voted how they did. It's the denigration of the people who were older. This article called them "grumpy", but I've seen worse.
I've seen lots of other comments and articles that not only resorted to name-calling, but also tried to use the fact that people were older as prima facie evidence that their reasoning was bad.
- gkya 10y agoThe elder are not silenced, they can defend themselves. > but also tried to use the fact that people were older as prima facie evidence that their reasoning was bad. Like it or not (I don't like it either), but that may be an argument. Calling that denigration is the easy path out, but it leads nowhere. What has to be done is to refute it, however vulgar that might be. We're dealing with the results of a vulgar, uneducated, haphazard decision anyways.
- crusso 10y agoThe elder are not silenced, they can defend themselves. You could use that as an excuse for any sort of attack. In general, and especially here on HN, ad hominem is frowned upon.