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TheFarseer

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30. 3 & 4 definitely

Reply to cab67 (Reply #29)

Sun Mar 28, 2021, 07:00 AM

Mar 2021

1 it’s possible people around here think it, but know enough not to say it in mixed company. 2 I know a few people that will use the worst kind of racial slurs if there’s only white people around.

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"I'm old fashioned" and "that's how I was raised." [View all] cab67 Mar 2021 OP

Good Post! ProfessorGAC Mar 2021 #1

I was raised Diamond_Dog Mar 2021 #2

I was raisied by a bigot father too. Tommymac Mar 2021 #17

I was too. Blue_playwright Mar 2021 #19

Whenever I here that edhopper Mar 2021 #3

Well, abolitionists were also "old-fashioned", so that doesn't even come close to being an excuse. eppur_se_muova Mar 2021 #4

Yep - my husband's ancestor was at the state meeting when the Quakers split over abolition csziggy Mar 2021 #16

Oddly enough, this reminds me of the "when SNL was funny" crowd. Maybe someone can explain it better dameatball Mar 2021 #5

IT WAS WRONG THEN, IT IS WRONG NOW Skittles Mar 2021 #6

+1 2naSalit Mar 2021 #9

What?? It's prejudice baggage. I thought we never tolerated childhood baggage past age 30! ancianita Mar 2021 #7

Unless you're about a hundred fifty years old there is no way Raine Mar 2021 #8

My father grew up in one of those towns where blacks, except latrine cleaners, had to be gone by Karadeniz Mar 2021 #10

How one is raised and how one behaves are not the same thing. It's called choice. nt Biophilic Mar 2021 #11

I'm 68 y/o Dem_in_Nebr. Mar 2021 #12

. Lame excuse if ever there was one czarjak Mar 2021 #13

All progeny of my parental units recoiled at their racism... and tendency to vote against their own lambchopp59 Mar 2021 #14

I wouldn't go so far as to say that racism has been understood to be a character flaw since 1967 dsc Mar 2021 #15

Understood cab67 Mar 2021 #22

both are terrible, the old fashioned is worse RANDYWILDMAN Mar 2021 #18

served in the military . monkeyman1 Mar 2021 #20

K & R mountain grammy Mar 2021 #21

Just other ways of saying "I'm not even gonna try to justify my unjustifiable behavior" RockRaven Mar 2021 #23

My people used to torture captives, cut their thoats, and bury them in the bogs DBoon Mar 2021 #24

I am quite old fashioned tirebiter Mar 2021 #25

Can you give an example? TheFarseer Mar 2021 #26

I've witnessed it myself. cab67 Mar 2021 #29

3 & 4 definitely TheFarseer Mar 2021 #30

"My father, his father, his father before him...all Sons Of The Confederacy." BobTheSubgenius Mar 2021 #27

Members of my family were racists Marthe48 Mar 2021 #28

But you'll never hear "Call me old fashioned but the CEO-worker pay ratio seems a little off" ck4829 Mar 2021 #31