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Generational differences
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this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2024
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Know who else generalizes huge groups of people and defends themselves with "it was just a joke"? Racists. Homophobes. Transphobes. That the company you wanna keep?
That’s a pathetically bad comparison. This distinction is key:
Bigots often makes “jokes” that are serious but hide under a thin veneer of humor, and those “jokes” are often discriminatory.
Some people might have trouble telling the difference. I don’t.
I don't think your joke was that bad, what I took issue with was your justification for it. I'm sick of hearing "it's just a joke, get over it". It's rarely used by good people.
Wow, I had no idea that making fun of boomers is the same as transphobia. Thank you for blessing me with your wisdom
It's not the same. But using a line out of the transphobes' playbook is a really fucking bad look.
I mean, legally it is in the US at least. Our age discrimination protections are only for 40+ people. I'm 40+, but I still feel like that's an absolutely unacceptable limitation on protections. I can legally refuse to hire somebody under 30 "because they're stupid millenial kids" but not a gen-X "because they're entitled"