My parents have become insufferable.

Anyhow, I can confidently say I'm not racist.

My offspring have married partners of other races and I have mixed race grandchildren. It's not like I value my white grandchildren over my brown skinned grandchildren.
Sorry, you can hurl the insults all you like, but the mud is not sticking.
Maybe you think I'm racist for noticing that my grandchildren have various colour skin (like MM taking offence that a member of the Royal Family was awful enough to mention the subject). Feel free to carry on. Or do something more useful.

My friends father was radicalised online by right wing nonsense. She had spoken to him and explained algorithms but turned up one day to him writing another letter and sat him down to talk to him again. She told him that she didn't recognise him. Thankfully, he appears to have listened and have stopped the 'boat people' talk AFAIK.

The irony of these same people listening to Farage again on Europe and voting to leave when we had an agreed limit on the number of migrants we would take when in the EC. And they're still listening to this man...

'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.'

Shhhhh.. the virtue signallers with nothing to lose don't like people clouding the issues with facts.

Nobody on this thread has made any kind of judgment on sight about anybody. I’ve pointed out older people are more likely to display these kinds of prejudice (certainly the anti Irish kind - that’s non existent in people under the age of about 60).

I am not prejudiced against older people: I am here to discuss actual real life issues (in the case of the anti Irish thread, the real life discrimination on the basis of ethic origin). The thread was repeatedly pulled away from that issue with multiple people whingeing about ageism - because presumably anti Irish discrimination isn’t as important as pointing out how they perceived discrimination against them being displayed. 🙄 It is just ridiculous.

GB news audience age demographics graph, in case it helps you understand.

"Sorry, you can hurl the insults all you like, but the mud is not sticking."

I don't need to hurl insults, I only need to read your post from earlier.

@sausagetheorangecat
Are you my daughter? I shop in Tesco, have lots of medical appointments & am very disappointed that no-one stocks Red Delicious apples any more! ;-)

Now that would be interesting if we had similar graphs for many other news sources - and with numbers rather than percentages.. As it is, quite meaningless.

Racist to apples or what.

Well, like I said, the traditional community was blown open by hitherto unfamiliar faces. Unfortunately, it's been made taboo to consider what the impact was on the community, under threat of being classified as 'racist.'
Personally, I think this situation contributes to the situation where the older generation are coralled into a psychological ghetto, because it's not acceptable to notice something which may have hugely impacted their lives, or family members'.
I've noticed that other nations have fiercely protected their cultures from the outside. Brits have failed to do this, and this has led to some of the difficulties we have.
Racism is an attitude of mind. Noticing societal change does not make me racist. Nor does mentioning it.
I don't look down on people of another race or skin colour, nor consider them less than myself in any way. I'm happy to welcome them as part og my ffamily, and I think that's a good acid test.

Another thread diverted by a discussion on ageism.

Yawn.

So many posters making this about their own opinions! Awful behaviour.

please enlighten us, what are your proposed solutions to these 'societal issues'.

Why the patronising sarcasm? Do we have some ageism going on?
When did I ever say I had solutions?
Give your head a wobble and get off your high horse.

Given the strength of your opinion, you must have some kind of idea what you want to do about these 'issues' you highlight so passionately?

FWIW the OPs parents have only recently started behaving in this way, whereas yours seem to go back to the 1970s... decades and decades ago....

Seems like more of a person thing, rather than an "age" thing, wouldn't you agree? Yet you're very keen to paint it as young vs old.

You obviously want to have a go at me, indeed are having a go, can’t let go of the sarcasm and have a respectful conversation.
Sorry, I’m not playing.⛹️‍♂️

'Enlighten us' 😆

My DP are in their 80s and absolutely not like that. Their personalities have been magnified in other ways but political beliefs and tolerance remained constant.

I totally understand. My parents are in their 80s and my mum is the worst. She moans about exactly these 3 issues ( not Nigel Farage as she wouldn’t know who he was!) and my dad joins in. She even comments rudely on her own family members- you just give up honestly! I hope I don’t end up like them!

My mum is 81 and exactly like this. I can't talk about politics and have to ignore her when she says there are acceptable gay people and unacceptable gay people.

I'm similar age to your parents, and I hope I don't act like that! Are they living very isolated lives? Maybe they need to find more things to do, besides gossipping about the neighbours and watching GB News. Do they have any hobbies?

When I was 18 so 1990, my dad (who went to the pub every single day) would go to a certain pub on a Saturday lunchtime and come back at 3pm pissed and so full of vitriol about certain things and spoiling for an argument. Sometimes it was about women and about the men he was with having daughters who would be making their dad's tea or would be about how the only proper job was a manual job. Given I was 18, doing a levels , did not make his tea and was probably going to go into one of these jobs he despised I did find it quite an odd way to operate.

Point of the story being that what you get fed and who you hang around with really can affect some people. This bloody rough pub in Burnley being a case in point - my dad wanted to fit in with these blokes for some reason and that mattered more than a relationship with me. Stupid old goat.

I can’t argue with the statistics but I can just hope not to be lumped in with this lot.
I was alarmed to discover that I am ten years older than the “OAP” who was pictured assaulting a woman at the Reform conference. I can only assume that all that nastiness is prematurely ageing.
Stereotyping and prejudice of any kind isn’t acceptable.

I hear you…. My dad still goes on about Brexit & saves newspaper articles for people to read on how terrible Brexit has made everything. I completely ignore him, shut conversations down and tell him I don’t have time to read the articles. He watches my daughter play football every week and my husband sits with him & says he goes on about it the whole match. I try to avoid going over there, it’s draining

You do get racism and other forms of bigotry in all age groups- perhaps the oldest AND youngest the most, Older people are more likely to watch GB News; younger ones to follow Andrew Tate.