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Simply mentioning a group doesn't automatically mean discrimination against that group.
What discrimination has been committed against 18-24 year olds because of this post? Was anyone fired? Injured? Killed? Kicked out of their housing? What's the actual harm you're upset about here?
I dunno, being blamed for 2016, with with the same damn statement during the election, rather than actually listening to what people are saying seems pretty harmful to me.
Also, there doesn’t need to be clear harm for it to be bigotry. OP’s entire comment - not just the idle fact- is clearly based in a belief that under-25’s don't vote, and clearly felt it was something they needed to correct.
It is true to say that there are more boomers- as a percentage of boomers- voting over millennials or gen z, (70%, 55%, and 48%) but it’s patently not fair to say we don’t.
Particularly when you understand many of the reasons that young-ish voters are not voting.
The national average was 60%, in 2020, and you have to go back to 1968 to see a higher turn out. Americans suck at voting, there’s really no need to pin it on any one group.
Except OP didn't say they DON'T vote. They said they were LEAST LIKELY to, which you just confirmed with data.
So either you and OP are both ageist for pointing that out or neither of you are.
Read the next sentence in their post.
Recognizing a fact, and being like that….
Particularly when you consider the difficulties to voting in that phase of life- most are students, mostly at college, and may not have the ability to return home to vote (or get registered to vote in the state they’re in,) and absentee voting is frequently made extremely difficult.
Not to mention they also frequently have jobs as well as school and simply don’t have time.
But of course? It’s their fault regardless of reasons.
It’s factually accurate to say black people are convicted of more petty crimes than white people. Would you tell black people to just do less crime? Or would you recognize that a large part of that is systemic racism in policing and the courts leading to much heavier police presence in predominantly black neighborhoods?