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Or maybe, just maybe, he was being sarcastic and not ageist? God, why do people need to take everything at face value...
by dguaraglia 14y ago
Or maybe, just maybe, he was being sarcastic and not ageist? God, why do people need to take everything at face value...
- masterzora 14y agoI agree with you for this particular case but you are mistaken if you think that sarcastic and ist are mutually exclusive. Sarcastic comments of a ist form can (and nontrivially often do): mask sincere ism; be a more socially-acceptable-looking way of expressing actual ism; encourage ism, especially of a casual degree; exhibit societal/subconscious/not-actively-malicious ism; or create a generally hostile environment for people of an oppressed class of *. So, yeah, probably an overreaction for this particular occasion, but it's not so easy as writing it off as "sarcasm".