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In reply to the discussion: Ignorant people are really starting to bum me out. [View all]LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)This is what's "wrong with old people"??? It's more like this is what's wrong with the willfully ignorant right wing.
All old people are not listening to Hannity. I'm verging on old (60's) and am just beginning to get the special ageist treatment, so I'm a little sensitive. Blanket statements about one age group or another are unhelpful. To illustrate - some time ago, maybe in late 1980s, Japanese Emperor Hirohito died. I was born after WWII but I knew from history lessons that Hirohito was considered a bad guy and war criminal. As such, I didn't understand why news reports implied that his death was something to be unhappy about. At my job a co-worker, maybe 20 years older than I, went out of her way to confront me and said the media-reported outpouring of grief was all the fault of "your [my] generation" because [we] buy the products of Japanese manufacturers Sony and Panasonic. I answered, "Well, one of YOUR generation (then-president George Bush Sr.) is going to the funeral." My long-winded point is, don't generalize about age groups. None of them are monolithic.