Jeremiah

Audio note, it says penetrated based on age.

People seem much more willing to commit atrocities in the name of oppressing a rival class, religion or race.

Oppression based on sex has been almost ubiquitous.

But being anti-old people goes against the grain of human nature.

That's a feature, not a bug.

We all have old relatives, and we'll all be old.

We seem to worry that this will lead to self-loathing and negative stereotypes that we'll all suffer from in the future.

But I'm concerned more about the immediate problems of housing prices, the coming entitlements crisis, and finding an alternative to right and left-wing forms of populism, which have the wind at their backs.

Criticisms based on age never causes so much psychic damage to people as those based on race, sex and sexual orientation.

The boomers themselves, I think, showed how relatively benign prejudice against the old is.

In the 1960s and 70s, they talked about being oppressed by older generations.

It never led to mass killings or systematic discrimination or anything like that.

In fact, the old continued to acquire more money and resources and the welfare state has been expanding with more and more money going to them.

Scott writes, If he could get those things more easily by making people hate the young, he would recommend hating the young.

I can only plead that I'm still less utilitarian than thou.

My post was meant to argue that boomers don't deserve hatred.

If your objection is that they may not deserve hatred, but that hating them will have good consequences, and so you recommend it anyway, then this seems like the sort of thing that often goes badly, even if you can't predict exactly how.

Hanania argues that nobody will genocide the old, and I agree.

But it brings to mind some of the arguments around the beginning of wokeness, where people justified anti-white rhetoric by saying it was basically harmless.

Obviously in a 65% white country where white people hold most positions of power, nobody will genocide the whites.