What would you say if I wrote this?"Women still have this old-school mothering mentality that's increasingly out of step with where the economy's going. No wonder nobody seems to want to hire them."Or this?
"Darkies still have this old-school laziness that's increasingly out of step with where the economy's going. No wonder nobody seems to want to hire them."You'd all call me a misogynist and a racist, and you'd be right.
You wouldn't expect that sort of thing from blogger and fellow Patch columnist Jonathan Geeting. But yesterday, from LV Independent, he made this remark:
"Old people still have this old-school clock-puncher 9-5 mentality that's increasingly out of step with where the economy's going. No wonder nobody seems to want to hire them."Whenever I read Jonathan, my eyes start to glaze over after the third sentence. I feel like I'm getting a sermon. So I completely missed the shot.
Also, I'm getting old.
But other more alert readers, like Monkey Momma, were upset. Here's what she said.
"By the way, what is up with the 'oldsters' comment?? Age has nothing to do with this? Why would you publically discriminate on folks' judgement based solely on age? That's not very liberal, or even decent, of you."She's right. It's age discrimination.
Amazingly, this is the same person who screams "Don't Let the Bigots Gut Bethlehem's Anti-Discrimination Ordinance" in one of his screeds. At a meeting he never attended, he harangues Bethlehem City Council, "Did you really get into public service to pass this kind of hyper-incrementalist half-measure? People should do the right thing and deny the bigots and homophobes these sweeping religious exemptions."
Geeting, of course, is violating even the watered down version of the ordinance he supposedly supports. If he would like to see what a bigot looks like, he should check out the closest mirror.
