February 18th, 2023
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Our hatred for the elderly comes from our ancestors need to stay young to survive.
February 18th, 2023
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tachakas_fanboy
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Secret_Dragonfly9588
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Davotk
Our hatred for the elderly
Uh. No? Do you need to talk to someone
comes from our ancestors need to stay young
Nobody stays young. You don't need to be young to survive. Indeed, only people who have grown up and reproduced themselves can be said to survive, in the context of "ancestors" (since they wouldn't be ancestors of they didnt have kids)
What are you even trying to say? None of this makes any sense
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honeyritzzz
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LayersOfMe
Maybe they meant the hatred for getting old.
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Berlin72720
You spelled "my" and "insecurities" wrong. Let me fix that for you.
"My hatred for the elderly comes from my insecurities."
Now it makes a lot more sense - you're welcome!
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Mister-Miyagi-
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gimmhi5
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jackoalt
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Science-Compliance
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Dead_Mans_Toe
Interesting theory! Id never thought of that before
But! I think my personal hatred for the elderly comes from the fact that they’re 1) stubborn and set in their ways to point where they are slowing down progress politically. 2) Slow, we’re use to getting everything quickly and have become impatient. 3) dumb, because of cognitive decline. 4) most of them are rude and entitled.
C25H34O3
A lot of old ppl are like that but not all of them. A lot of young people are the exact same way, age isn’t really the big factor
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[deleted]
Your hate for the elderly comes from the fact that you’re selfish and entitled. The problem is you, not them.
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Dead_Mans_Toe
Clearly you all haven’t worked retail 😜
[deleted]
Clearly you were never taught empathy
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Dead_Mans_Toe
Please refer to the original post.
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Original post by OP or your comment that I initially responded to? For someone who claims that one of the reasons your hate the elderly is because they are dumb, you could work on your communication skills or it might appear like a hypocritical reason to hate someone
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Dead_Mans_Toe
The original post is about how the OP hates old people. This is a thread about why people hate old people.. i dont get why im being downvoted for agreeing with the OP
“Our hatred..” Meaning we’re not the only ones who dont like old people.
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[deleted]
I was specifically commenting on your appalling reasons for hating old people. On this post I can see that so far, ‘our’ is referring to 2 people. I don’t think this is a common feeling toward the elderly
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the-silver-tuna
The original post is stupid and people don’t hate the elderly is why you’re being downvoted. To come out and say you actually do hate an entire group of people that you don’t know makes you seem like a bigoted piece of shit is another reason for the downvotes.
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Dead_Mans_Toe
Clearly you feel personally attacked for some reason.
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[deleted]
If I get an opportunity to call someone out for being a shitty human, I take it, that’s all
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Dead_Mans_Toe
How is anything I said untrue? Clearly I’m not the only who hates them, or this post would never have been made in the first place.
dysfunctionalpress
so....there's at least two of you out there.
got it.
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Enigmatic_Stag
Hate is a strong word. Pretty ignorant for you to hate millions of people you've never met or known, simply from generalizations and the small pool in your anecdotal experience.
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lord-neptune
Straight up ignorance and bigotry right here
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Enigmatic_Stag
I feel sorry for you. One day you'll be old, so I guess you'll hate yourself. You shouldn't hate people you've never met. You shouldn't generalize them or stereotype them. You shouldn't tie people to stigmas. Because one day when you're that person, you'll realize just how hateful those stigmas are.
Some people spend their time thinking they'll be young forever. Then the years begin to fly by as they fall into a routine, and before they know it, they wake up at 65 with the dawning realization that they are old.
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J-Dabbleyou
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ApocalypseSpokesman
I think a part of it is that in, say, the 1600's, your life played out more or less the same as your parents and grandparents. So the average 60-year-old had wisdom and life experience that was immediately useful to your own life. Now, the world changes so quickly that the advice of 60-year-olds is comparatively useless. Their biggest contribution to society has evaporated.
This trend is only accelerating, and I'm not sure, but I suspect it bodes ill for society generally.
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J-Dabbleyou
That’s huge! I didn’t even think of that, elders used to be the teachers and now they can’t even keep up in the modern world
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LayersOfMe
You will probably have you own convictions that you wont change after getting old. I think its just part of getting old.
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Davotk
Maybe, but there is evidence that unlike any generation before, Millennials are growing up and not growing conservative.
The post-internet era is potentially a very different can of beans
Edit: link
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LayersOfMe
The pendulum will swing back then. It like kids of hippies that become conservative people. Tennagers usually doesnt want to follow their parents beliefs.
I dont know It can be anything. Like maybe the current generation will be against tech body implants in the far future.
Davotk
Nah none of what you're suggesting is borne out by the evidence
Children of more progressive people lean progressive also. They very rarely regress to conservative politics.
Indeed, the majority of children follow their parents overall ideology at least until their 20s. Young rebellion tends to be against strict conservatism. Kinda hard to rebel against hippie parents who let you have sex in the basement as long as you use condoms.
The arc of time is liberal, now we are also seeing that includes newer generations who can't be swayed by conservative propaganda like in past eras.
Because, at least in US politics, conservatism is largely unproven, unprovable, or blatantly fake rhetoric. While liberal propaganda tends to be at worse means-end illusory logic.
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J-Dabbleyou
Hard disagree, there are PLENTY of old people with open minds, and I intend to be one, it’s only a handful of elders I’ve met irl who are really stuck in the 50s
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Dead_Mans_Toe
Thats a fair assessment. And yes we need to talk about how a lot of old people hold on to homophobia, transphobia, and racism. And refuse to evolve and practice acceptance
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Spectralz_
They don't deserve the downvotes. Yall are hateful
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[deleted]
What do you mean? Replace tribe with Congress and it's the same thing.
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liquid_the_wolf
Also people didn’t generally live as long until recently.
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Hxucivovi
Our hatred for the elderly
Who hates the elderly? Is this a zoomer thing?
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Larkson9999
I hate old people and I am one of them. They're terrible drivers, incredibly stubborn, rude, short-sighted, they talk too quietly and expect you to speak up for them, and they vote to keep the country the way they likes it without even understanding the issues.
I suppose I did just describe young people though, apart from the hearing and voting thing, since young people don't vote and just won't listen. Maybe humans just suck.
CalvinSays
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Larkson9999
Five minutes ago? Dang. I need to fix my clock.
Dead_Mans_Toe
What do you think this recent phenomenon says about the elderly or us as a culture?
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Dead_Mans_Toe
I knew i wasn’t the only one. The OP needs to speak up..
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Livid-Finger719
Enigmatic_Stag
Young, middle-aged and elderly can all be smelly. There are plenty of elderly people I've met that don't have any kind of scent. Maybe you just need to stop living on the internet with your preconceived notions of what elderly people are like and start actually talking to people. What you described are generalizations and nothing more.
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Livid-Finger719
I work at a pharmacy. I said they can be smelly. I'm not living on the internet, when I can smell you down an aisle, then you smell.
Edit: of course it's a generalization, the post says "our hatred for the elderly....". I just said why I don't like them?
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Dead_Mans_Toe
Yes. Thank you 🙌
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mrmayhemsname
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You do know that gen z have the highest (by far) stats of mental health issues than any other generation right? It’s not the elderly taking out their mental health frustrations on everyone by shooting up schools
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mrmayhemsname
Of REPORTED mental health issues. Both me (millennial) and my mother (gen x) have diagnosed and medicated mental health problems. Her parents (silent gen) had very clear mental health issues that they never had diagnosed or treated until my grandmother started taking anti depressants. She became a much more kind and stable person once she got treatment in her 70s.
So destigmatizing mental health services and making treatment more accessible to people of every age would be helpful.
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