Louise Aronson

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1,082 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard May 2019 last heard Jul 2024

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Well, can't you look at older adults and say, well, they're what gave us our present.

You know, there's a way in which we have this endless double standard about old age.

And I just think it's dangerous and it allows us to take all kinds of shortcuts and get away with things, like saying the problem is theirs.

And it's also really, really strange because it's the only ism, really, where you're having a prejudice against your future self.

You would think self-interest alone would get rid of this, and yet it's been present throughout human history.

So there's definitely something to it.

Yeah.

I think some people are better at that than others, but it's so common that I think you can't actually necessarily give people too hard a time.

I think more we need to encourage them to see it that way.

Part of it, I suspect, has to do that we all start young.

And everybody's more comfortable with the group they're in.

And so there also is this phenomenon with ageism, which isn't so true of other isms.

It's not unseen in other isms, but of internalized ageism, which is profound and ubiquitous.

So usually you don't get, you know, internalized racism or internalized sexism.

I mean, you do get some of that internalized homophobia, et cetera.

Although often those things are responses to social pressers.

You know, the little black child who picks the white doll with blue eyes because we're all taught, oh, those are the better people.

you know, the gay person who's pretending to be straight.

You know, there is this, but it's fairly uniform among older people.

And I think it's because we kind of imprint on ourselves as young.

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