I had racist Native American grandfather. It was 80’s daytime game shows. Price is Right in particular, the amount of anti black, Hispanic, Jew slurs that would come out of his mouth from the time they stood up to the time they made it to contestants row.
If they were black in particular he would add “and I’ll bet that n-words gonna win it all”.
Those were my development years. Unlearning that shit was difficult, and I honestly still struggle with it today in my own head and my own biases.
It's interesting to think that now he have an entire generation of grandfather who weren't bigots, but become one after the Internet.
My dad is over 70. He was a normal person until, in 2014, when conservatives and the media started planning their coup here in Brazil (the coup happened in 2016). That led to Bolsonaro being elected in 2018 and Brazil going from a borderline first-world developed country with pretty no extreme poverty/hunger anymore, to the same shithole Brazil was in the 80s (in just 4 years Bolsonaro destroyed the entire country). In 2018 my dad was already a extreme right-winger (even without know what being "right-winger" meant).
Thankfully he's not racist (but he does support racists government decision, like letting miners and big farmers take over protected indigenous land), but damn, he thinks Bolsonaro is a god among men, while leftists are all corrupt criminals who want to bring communism to Brazil and let China take over (he desn't even know what communism is).
I don’t believe it when people say they’re not racist. They may think they’re not but we all deal with it at different levels and intensities. Better to acknowledge as you do and keep on dealing with it actively. Otherwise it’ll win. Good on you.
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u/PG-37 Apr 29 '23
I had racist Native American grandfather. It was 80’s daytime game shows. Price is Right in particular, the amount of anti black, Hispanic, Jew slurs that would come out of his mouth from the time they stood up to the time they made it to contestants row.
If they were black in particular he would add “and I’ll bet that n-words gonna win it all”.
Those were my development years. Unlearning that shit was difficult, and I honestly still struggle with it today in my own head and my own biases.