ASFAR Forums - General Youth Rights Discussion

Discrimination culture

2012-02-04T04:32:42Z

I think one of the biggest problems facing the youth rights movement is that discrimnation against youth is both normal and institutionalised. Take this case, as recorded one day after it happened during a trip to NY.

As unlikely as it may seem, the UN actually practices age discrimination as well.
During a tour of the UN building, I sat down on one of the benches while the tour guide talked, and was ordered to stand up with “Older people first”, despite the fact that the tour guide had already offered the bench, and no one had taken it, making me the only person on the bench when I was ordered to stand.

Not to be arrogant, but it seems that I'm in the wrong section of the bus....

If people have an unconscious preference for young people

2012-01-29T20:17:21Z

then why don't they want them to have equal rights?

According to the famous Harvard Implicit Association studies, most people prefer young people to old people.

Yet, most people seem to be against youth rights. Why is this?

Abolition

2011-06-15T06:13:13Z

Just to gauge this trend, how many posters here are abolitionists (or liberationists)? As in, who advocates the eventual abolition of age restrictions in an ideological sense? ASFAR's core philosophy is based around abolitionist ideas, of course.