Granted it was during a bleak period of my life when I was so reactionary. But my god, to think these goobers are still around today, still doing racism and sexism, just moving from target to target to take out the impotent rage on.
Just reminded of it today with the “discourse” of Yasuke being in Ass Creed and G*mers changing any woman not white and waifish with AI.
I was 12 in 2000. There were a lot of words that were “ok” to say back then that I regret having come out of my mouth.
The important thing is to move on and learn why that was bad. Don’t beat yourself up over it.
“There are two words I don’t want to hear anybody say. ‘Sucks’ and ‘Shut up’.”
-my elementary school principal, in a very real and very serious assembly
One of my “friends” taught me a slur in 4th grade and it made the teacher think my parents were racists lol
If you’re reformed and now on Hexbear, fuck you, Jay!
Around the same grade, a friend said to me “you know why everything costs $##.99? It’s called the Jewish dollar, cuz they’re cheap”
I didn’t know the stereotypes but learned there.
Similar to being introduced to the word gay by it being hurled at me as an insult while on the bus, didn’t know what it meant but knew I didn’t want to be that
We had a kid on our elementary school playground that had older brothers who told him about all the “bad stuff”. He would hold court as we could sit around him and learn all the bad words for lgbtq people, the subtle differences between a blowjob and a “hummer”, all the made up sex things like “rusty trombones” and whatnot.
That Kid turned out really weird. Hope he’s doing ok out there.
Suckiest Bunch Of Sucks is the only thing that comes to mind after something like that
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That’s not an american football game, that’s the setup to a gay porno!
Oh jeez. I remember that. I was a large, overweight kid who was bad at sports. I was given the ball a lot.
A lot of us did. But look at us now! I’m proud of anyone who realized that was wrong and changed their behavior. Too many people double down on “it’s just words bro” or “it didn’t used to mean that. It just meant dumb”.
True, main thing is I was just a kid and saw other people used it, did not think critically…