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In reply to the discussion: What's with all the Ageism in These Threads?? [View all]Igel
(35,300 posts)People like to vote for those in their own group. If you're young, more often you'd rather vote for somebody who's young.
We decry that when "if you're white, more often you'd rather vote for somebody who's white." We support it when it's "if you're Latino, more often you'd rather vote for somebody who's Latino." And when somebody dares to say, "if you're Jewish, more often you'd rather vote for somebody who's Jewish" we detect the dog-whistle of racism.
One definition of "groupism," " the tendency to think and act as members of a group : the tendency to conform to the cultural pattern of a group at the expense of individualism and cultural diversity groupism." (Of course, there's other definition that some think must be the One True Definition, but this one's apparently the most widespread outside of some sociological circles.)