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May 21, 2020 Activism

You Say You Want a Revolution? Against Ageism? Now’s the Time

COVID 19 has exposed a distressing disregard for the older generation. At a recent Sunday Salon, activist Ashton Applewhite explained why this creates an opportunity to ramp up the movement to end ageism.

The displays of unabashed ageism over the past few months have been truly horrific. In the U.K., a journalist actually suggested the virus could benefit the economy by “culling” older Britons. Online trolls have nicknamed the virus the Boomer Remover. Dan Patrick, the Texas Lieutenant Governor, raised the truly vile idea that grandparents might sacrifice themselves for the good of the economy. Everyday we hear news of nursing homes being overrun by the virus, and we can't help but sense the general lack of concern for the inhabitants and those who care for them.

Despite these developments, Ashton Applewhite, a prominent anti-ageism activist and author of This Chair Rocks, told 50-plus participants at a NextTribe virtual event that she saw reasons to be optimistic. "COVID isn’t making ageism worse; it is exposing the ageism, ableism, racism, but especially ageism, in society, because people are more aware of it than ever before," she said. "This gives us a historic opportunity to explore that and build on that. We know social change is hard, but so many more people are aware."

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