Craig-315134 (6/17/2013)
djackson wrote:It would have been equally acceptable.
There is nothing at all wrong with the statement. We as a society really need to stop all the PC garbage.
Or it would have been equally unacceptable. Part of the reason 'all the PC garbage' (as you put it) exists is because some people are indeed insensitive to the disadvantages other groups have endured in past and present.
A meritocracy is to what we all should aspire, most certainly. And whilst youth and age confer their own particular advantages and disadvantages, I do think it was in poor form to single out older workers as an editorial example.
There is nothing wrong with stating a fact. When people attempt to portray that as discrimination they are in fact engaging in discrimination, and decreasing the value of any gains made against discrimination in the past. As I said, humans are all different, and that is one of our greatest strengths. Ignoring our differences is causing more issues than acknowledging them.
Sorry, we will have to agree to disagree.
We can agree on what you said about it being equally unacceptable, but I view the level of unacceptability as absolutely zero, and you don't.
Dave