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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.
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.
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.
Thanks for the context, comrade. That’s definitely very unfortunate.