So I’ve been thinking for a while about this subject, and I finally decided to make a post about this some time after I saw a YouTuber say what I put on the title of this post.

Thing is, I’ve noticed that very often young people and especially kids are treated as lesser beings, like if they were not humans beings with problems and lives of their own but just an annoyance that people have to keep up with.

I remember when I was a kid and I wanted to cross a zebra crossing cars would just pass by without stopping more often than not. Now that I’m an adult they stop pretty much every time. I suspect it was because they didn’t want to stop for someone they consider to be lesser than them.

Also, a lot of people seem to think that being a kid means that you just play videogames or whatever all day, but don’t these people remember when they were kids? I sure do. Going to school has been the worst thing I’ve ever had to endure. The only difference with having a job is that you don’t get paid.

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    1 year ago

    I was just saying yesterday, ageism is on a bizarre rise recently. Today if someone says “I find everyone 5 years younger than me a stupid child lol” and you don’t immediately agree, you’re the weird one.

    I don’t get it where tf it’s coming from. One partial theory is that people are so deathly afraid of csam and being accused of being pedos, that they need to virtue signal how they reaaaaaaaaaaaally don’t care about kids, but there has to be more to it. Casually hating on boomers is completely okay too, so I just think it’s another way of humans hating on everyone that’s not like them.

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      1 year ago

      Today if someone says “I find everyone 5 years younger than me a stupid child lol”

      How young are these people? I don’t want to come off defending ageism, but it does make a difference if the person saying that is 18 or 38.

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        I’ve mostly heard/seen it from people in the 25-35y range. Lower than that and it gets absurd, with even a 2 years difference apparently being an insurmountable obstacle to just having a conversation.

        Obviously not everyone is like that, but I do get the vibe that it’s becoming the new standard.