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Yo, Is This Ageist?

Is Senior Abuse Prevention Ageist

What About Older Workers

What about thought? Is it ageist to worry Biden may be too old to be president for another term?

Ageism and ableism rear their ugly heads every electoral cycle. The lead-up to the 2022 mid-term elections featured an outbreak of major media stories that blamed "gerontocracy" for our broken democratic system. I said it when Bernie Sanders was on the campaign trail, and I'll say it again:

Generalizations about the capacities of older people are no more acceptable than racial or gender stereotypes. Period.

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