What would you do if I told you there's a whole demographic group that can't be trusted to work because they're unreliable, bad with technology, slow learners, and most likely not a good "culture fit"? What if I said that group probably shouldn't even be incorporated into the rest of society – that they should live in their own, separate communities where the rest of us don't have to see or interact with them unless we choose to?
Would your hackles be raised? Would that language have you dialing up the ACLU?
It probably should. It's called stereotyping. (Heard of it?) And while many of us — OK, some of us — have trained ourselves to notice how stereotypes work when it comes to things like ethnicity or gender, there are other categories where the practice goes painfully unnoticed — like age.
