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FolsomPrisonHues t1_j8azzoq wrote

Reply to comment by HumpSlackWails in How Christian Nationalists Usurped Maine's GOP by iknowyourded

I've been trying to tell my "liberal" friends this, but it's not until they have a queer kid or have to sell their house do they make the connections.

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HumpSlackWails t1_j8b0nga wrote

I grew up in the 80's and 90's.

I learned every bigoted slur I know at home before I heard it somewhere else. My dad brought home the latest racist joke he heard around the water cooler down at IBM.

Not Bob's Sister-Fucking Hut. Not the rock quarry. An electrical and computer engineer among other middle class, educated people who literally got their jollies of telling racist and sexist jokes because it gave them self worth or something.

They're not new.

They're just emboldened.

AGAIN.

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FolsomPrisonHues t1_j8b2gt3 wrote

My family (VERY CONSERVATIVE) "taught" me "the difference between a n word and a black person". I'm glad that I'm triggering all of these milquetoast libbies and racist chuds at the same time 😀

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HumpSlackWails t1_j8cn0cm wrote

I was taught a N was any black person who wasn't acting white enough.

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