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A good way to test if you're ageist is to replace "older" with "black" or "female" and re-read what you wrote (assuming you're not racist or sexist).
by CharlesW 3y ago
A good way to test if you're ageist is to replace "older" with "black" or "female" and re-read what you wrote (assuming you're not racist or sexist).
- kagakuninja 3y agoI'm an older developer (60), and no longer have an amazing memory like when I was young. It absolutely slows me down and makes it harder to learn new things. That said, I am the top performer on my current team of younger devs, in part because of my depth of experience.
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- everdrive 3y agoThis would assume that racism is totally equivalent to ageism, and I just can't imagine a world where this is true. Generally speaking, cultures have revered the older generations. It's only the recent rapid innovations in technology which have reversed this ancient trend. And crucially, it's reversed it because accumulated wisdom is negatively impacted by an ever-changing landscape. (it's not rendered useless, of course.) On the other hand racism and sexism have been around since time immemorial. Dr. King himself did not believe it was possible to erase racism from the world completely, and I think he was wise to believe that. Ageism by contrast is a very different, and modern problem.
- CharlesW 3y ago> This would assume that racism is totally equivalent to ageism… No, it just assumes that ageism, racism, and sexism are all forms of bigotry. > Ageism by contrast is a very different, and modern problem. Even though attitudes toward different age groups have varied across cultures and time periods, it's not "a modern problem". For example, the U.S.'s Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) became law in 1967, but ageism goes back centuries.