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Anon ends racism (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] olutukko@lemmy.world 39 points 6 months ago (1 children)

my ended by me growing up. in my country small towns and villages had pretty much no foreigners when I was child so racism was pretty normal. mostly just really offensive jokes and racial slurs with no though give to them. so it was pretty easy for all that shit catch in to you. when I grew up a bit and started hangik out in the closest city I quickly stopped all of that shit. I was never racist by heart or hateful towards minorities but all that joking and slurring was so normalized that I didn't really give it a thought until I actually started thinking independently.

I feel sad towards some of the people I used to know who are now young adults and still live there doing the same bullshit and being actually racists

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That is what it was like in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s. Unless you lived in one of the major cities,which was like four cities at the time, you didn't really see anyone who wasn't Caucasian.

It wasn't racism, it was ignorance.

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Racism doesn't have to be malicious. It is often caused by ignorance