Ministry of Propaganda - 11/Mar/2006: "Age Discrimination?"
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Age Discrimination?
A few years ago the doorman at a bar here in Swindon didn't want to let me in, initially declining to give me a reason. When a friend of mine asked if it was the Scotland Rugby shirt I was wearing he reluctantly admitted, yes, that was the reason. So I took it off and was let in without any problem. While I admittedly am quite tall (6ft3) and have fairly short cropped hair I claim I don't look like a nasty thug. Nevertheless I didn't make much of it and certainly didn't go to the press with it.
Others think they don't have to play by the rules:
They go shopping wearing a hooded top or complain if they're asked to take off their hat in a pub. Sure, both were women and they are 58 and 82 years old respectively. But I fail to see why that should make them exempt of the conventions or rules in place. Their argument is that they don't look like a nasty thug
or that they have 10 hats in their wardrobe and could not understand how her black rain hat with a smart maroon ribbon had fallen foul of pub regulations
.
So what? A lot of young people might have bad hair days and want to hide their messy hair under a hoodie. Or they might wear hats as a fashion accessory, which doesn't make them bad people. And just because they're younger they shouldn't be allowed to do it?
I think the landlord despite being heavily critizised is right when he says, we cannot be seen to be discriminating between the youths and the elderly people
. Either everyone should be asked to remove hoodies, hats or team colours or no-one. Otherwise I think it's just a discrimination of younger people based on stereotypes and prejudices.
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