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Casual use of a racial slur is a way to load the dice in your favor. If a generalization is true, can it be "ageist"?
by temphn 15y ago
Casual use of a racial slur is a way to load the dice in your favor. If a generalization is true, can it be "ageist"?
- doty 15y agoIf a generalization is true, can it be "racist"?
- mattdeboard 15y agoGeneralizations are never true, except when they are. Yes, old, out-of-touch engineers exist. There are women in the world who can't do math. There are black people who steal. There are alcoholic Native Americans. There are programmers with Asperger's. But lumping an individual person into those stereotypes -- especially in the workplace -- is just asking for a lawsuit. Do you see nothing wrong with the phrase, "You're just another out-of-touch old man"? Besides just being flat-out mean, it's also so devoid of any specific meaning as to be blatantly discriminatory.
- davewiner 15y agoVery very well put.