I was slightly surprised to see an article in the Guardian (of all papers) this morning, wherein the writer referenced an increase in the consumption of Anis in spain during the past year. Partly this was put down to its use in easter delicacies (?), but principally due to consumption by "old men in bars".
Now can you imagine the editors´ red pens had the article referred to consumption by black men in bars, muslims in bars, transgender people in bars, young women in bars (basically make up your own "-ism"). They are red-hot on sexism, racism, transgenderism, nationalism or any other trendy cause of the last 10 years - except ageism.
I actually don´t give a toss that they lump me into an age group, as it is something about which I can do nothing - but so are all the other labels.
What no one ever says is that people are a product of their age, upbringing and environment. People over 60 have inbred views that will never match those of the "woke" liberals under 40. They talk about entrenched racisim in the UK (well, the BBC "champion of diversity" on £75k for a 3-day week did as part of her publicity drive for her new book), but it is all about the environment in which you were brought up.
Generations born in immediate post-war Britain were, almost exclusively, white, hetro-sexual, Christian, class-conscious, nationalist, pro-empire - and were brought up by a generation that were probably more-so. No amount of Guardian censorship will change that. Nothing will change the woke views of the young. Just suck-it-up. Especially the anis.
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