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Originally Posted by topfiverecords
It can go the other way. It’s always product of environment and maybe lack of experience and exposure to learn that certain terms are no longer ok. Or something is dormant for a long time that it sneaks up in you. The older the wiser but also means their formative years were longer ago. My dad is 67, born in 52 in a small prairie town. I’ve know him for 40 years and I would never ever consider him or anything he has done or said as racist in my lifetime. Up until last year during a visit when discussing the recent population increase in his prairie city he used a derogatory term to represent the high percentage of new immigrants as Japanese. I’d never heard him used that term ever and I doubt in 50 years he himself ever had or even had a reason to speak to anyone anywhere about something that would have put him in a position to use that term.
Bill is from Three Hills. A rural part of Alberta, tat also wasn’t probably at the forefront of the end of racism. I don’t know, maybe they were. I’ve never been but I suspect based on other comments over the last days that there is racism still strongly alive in parts of Canada.
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I'm from Three Hills, I've seen this brought up a few times in this whole thing, and it irks me. I have no ties to the town anymore, but it's not some backwoods redneck racists hot cell. Sure there's farmers, sure there's a large religious sect, but that narrative has to stop