Wednesday, December 29, 2021

上から目線 Condescending Attitude

上から目線

 2020年5月31日の昼、神戸市の駐車場で、65歳の男性Aがマスクを付けていない25歳の男性Bを見かけ、「マスクせえや」と注意した。Bはカッとなり、「おっさんにいわれとうない」と言って、Aの首を絞め、地面にたたきつけた。そのため、Aは下半身不随となり、今、車椅子生活を送っている。

 Aさんには気の毒だが、年寄りが、若者に「上から目線」でものを言うのはよくない。せめて「お兄さん、コロナ気をつけてぇや」ぐらいなら、暴力はふるわれなかっただろう。

 A Condescending Attitude

  Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, a 65-year-old man [A] saw a maskless 25-year-old man [B] and cautioned him by saying, “Wear a mask” in a parking lot in Kobe City on the afternoon of May 31, 2020. B got angry saying, "Don't order me, old man," and choked and slammed him on the ground until he became paralyzed in his lower body. Now A has to use a wheelchair in his daily life.

  I feel sorry for A, but the aged should refrain from condescending to young men. If A had said, “Mister, please be careful with the pandemic,” he wouldn't have been assaulted.




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