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Or perhaps this is ageism
by beastman82 3y ago
Or perhaps this is ageism
- internetter 3y agoForgive me as I have little sympathy for middle aged adults calling "agism!!!" whenever an opportunity is presented to a college student that wasn't also presented to them
- endisneigh 3y agoI mean isn’t that literally ageism? I don’t have any opinion on whether it’s acceptable or not here but come on…
- internetter 3y agoThere's also no rules saying middle aged adults cannot be college students. The only agist policy here is that you need to be 18 to apply, and nobody bat their eye at that.
- endisneigh 3y agoYes there are. A 50 year old man cannot enter Harvard college.
- sodality2 3y agoWhy not?
- endisneigh 3y agoThat’s simply their rule.
- sodality2 3y agoWhere is this rule? Even in your other reply you say there's "no strict limitation" so it's not a "rule", just a trend.
- endisneigh 3y agoDorm rules mainly. Like I mention in a sibling comment, given the demographics and the arbitrariness of the decision it’s effectively ageism without being explicit.
- internetter 3y ago1 in 10 college students in the US is 40 or older
- endisneigh 3y agoThat’s not relevant - the schools in the area do not have undergraduates in their middle age. Middle aged college students usually attend extension schools part of the university, but not part of the undergraduate college. In any case there’s no strict limitation on being an undergraduate at say 60 (I believe Harvard Colleges oldest graduate was in their 80s), but it’s so exceptionally rare it’s ageism. There’s no reason why one would need to be an undergraduate.
- Arisaka1 3y agoI do think you are entitled to filter for a specific age group implicitly, but it doesn't make it any less discriminatory. Example: statistically the odds of someone graduating from college being over 30 are low. Therefore if I claim that I hire college graduates I get to also filter implicitly by age. Then the question is: assuming an inherent bias of sample, is it desirable or undesirable to introduce a "function" that attempts some mitigation? I see the "functions" that attempt to mitigate sexism, racism but not ageism. It feels like companies or organizations are just fine with slapping a paragraph at the end of an announcement that parrots "we are inclusive trust us" without any real adjustment and call it a day.