• Study - At Least Half of TikTok Vids "Ageist"

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    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12365387/Half-TikTok-videos-baby-boomers-ageist-stereotypes-Gen-Z-millennials-think-older-peoples-views-dont-align-theirs-study-finds.html

    Half of all TikTok videos about baby boomers are 'ageist
    stereotypes' because Gen Z and millennials think older
    people's views don't align with theirs, study finds

    Study found 49.3% of videos posted on TikTok are against
    against 'boomers'

    . . .

    Hey, fellow boomers ... remember "Don't trust anyone
    over 30 ?". "Hope I die before I get old" ? :-)

    As a rule, the young - being young - don't understand
    why things are like they are, why people come to think
    like they think. They grew up in a world not of their
    own making. Typically they're just SURE that THEY have
    the right take on things.

    This is nothing new.

    People as a group don't seem to LEARN much from the
    previous generations - no, I'm not talking about
    the sci/tech stuff, but the "social sensibility"
    kinds of stuff. It's why we have endless recessions
    and depressions and oppressions for almost the exact
    same reasons. Each gen thinks only IT has all the
    smarts and will NEVER fall for the same Stupid Stuff
    that plagued the "ancient", "stupid", generations.

    Now there are number of good reasons to worry about
    TikTok because it's a Chinese propaganda conduit, but
    the "ageism" and arrogance weren't invented by China,
    merely exploited.

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