Why cant we discriminate against the young?

Question

Of all the racist ,ignorant foolish things ive ever heard.
from immigrant jokes to sex jokes to.
to foolish comments have come from some teen or preteen
whether white black green or red

i said this jokingly but seriously.
Know what i mean?
Not making a blanket statement

Answer 1

I'm not really sure what you're asking here, but bear in mind that the young often don't have the experience or maturity to deal with important topics like racism, and as such they are more likely to deal in tasteless humor.

Having said that, I would like to point out that you can't generalize the points of view of all young people, and that many young people are perfectly aware of racism and all of its negative attributes, and don't deal in lowbrow humor.

Answer 2

Many of us perpetually discriminate against the young along many dimensions. Given the typical definition, or discriminatory situation is cartoonified so that it would seems does not exist, it seems less prevalent than it is. Here's two dimensions that we (me included) pre-select young people out of some general categories.
1) It's generally held by cognitive psychologists that neural development is not complete until 24. The last areas of the brain to develop are the ones associated with what we typically call judgment. Wierdly, we exploit these young folks by asking them to carry weapons and make unfathomably complex decisions over life and death, yet acknowledge their yet to be realized potential. So, we have a drinking age, a voting age, an age of consent that don't necessarily align with the age we can convince them to sign up for commitments like the military. For those uncomplicated folks who think I must be generalizing about all young people, I'm not. Stop being so sensitive and wake up to statistical distribution.
2) Young people usually haven't been able to accumulate the piles of resources that older people have. So, when selling mutual funds, high dollar real estate, BMW's and so on, in a crowd where are your efforts better spent, a young person in or just out of college, or a fifty year old? Unfortunately, this is also the insidious activity that occurs towards black and latino folks, where it is less likely that these people of any age have had connections to a rich daddy or uncle to be a high wealth client.

Many other generalizations we can make of young people. They are inexperienced, tend to be single, more likely to be without kids, relatively naive, relatively less likely to have learned bad habits or concrete maladaptive behaviors.

Again, if you want to argue that this is a generalization and is a "bad" thing, you are correct and also naive. These generalizations are made everytime we are marketed to, hired, laid off, basically most of the time we interact with people we don't really know and have limited time available to get to know us (which is all of them).

Bottom line, young people don't know any better yet.

Answer 3

If we were allowed to discriminate against the young....who would be next?

Answer 4

Your wickedness offends me.

Answer 5

okay, and your point is?