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Grandmothers are going to be racist, that's just a default setting. I wish I spent more time with mine when they were around.
by hackernud3s 14d ago
Grandmothers are going to be racist, that's just a default setting. I wish I spent more time with mine when they were around.
- tombert 14d agoI have two grandmothers. One is racist in a way that is somewhat understandable (e.g. using outdated words like “oriental” to refer to Asian people). For her, I am more or less fine just rolling my eyes and continue talking to her, because I think she is ultimately a decent human who is just a victim of her time. My other grandmother is not like that. She is actively very racist in a way that I don’t find forgivable. I don’t talk to her after Trump won in 2016. It’s not that voting for Trump is in itself enough of a reason for me to cut someone off, but in her case the moment he won she just dropped all pretense and started being racist in ways that I have no interest in engaging with. It’s a little sad, it’s not like all my memories with her are bad or anything, but it’s life doesn’t always work out like we want it to.