Some of the millions of school age students from around the world who demonstrated and marched protesting the lack of attention given to reducing earth’s heating from greenhouse gasses. The earth is burning. Some places are uninhabitable now.
Enough said.
What is your opinion of these millions of students? How are we going to support them?
On Saturday, March 9th, Joe Biden and his predecessor visited Georgia a few days before the March 12 primary. In Georgia, the media appears to treat President Biden and his predecessor as equals in the 2024 presidential race. But they are not—not by a long shot. The media is replicating how they covered the 2020 presidential race. This is a failure of the free press to discern the real difference between the Republican candidate and the Democratic candidate, who happens to be President of the United States. The Republican candidate sought to stay in office in 2020 by staging a coup on January 6th, 2021. He lost the election by 7 million votes and still to this day, claims the Big Lie that the other side stole the election from him. Millions of Americans believe this, also. This is the underlying context that the press forgets to mention. The predecessor spent for years while sitting in the White House chipping away at the guard rails of democracy. Thankfully he was an under achieving autocrat.
This post is about ageism and how we discriminate against people that are considered old. We need to look at the media and ask why they are making the case that Biden is not fit for office based on his age. Most of the people in the media, those that are writing the stories and reporting on various outlets, are much younger than either Trump or Biden. Could they be involved in a case of bias, discrimination, or bullying on the basis of age? This very well could be the case. Researchers call this ageism, patterned after sexism and racism.
I was intrigued by the subtitle of this article, and since I’ve spent a lot of time in Texas, I’m passing this article on to you. Scoundrels, Weirdos, and Ne’er-Do-Wells on TX Ballot 2024 by Forrest Wilder, an article in the Texas Monthly, February 8, 2024.
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