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Originally Posted by CBeisbol
Look at our language. We have a lot of words and phrases in our vernacular which were commonly used 10, 20, 30, 50, etc years ago that will get you in big trouble now. That doesn't mean that everyone who used them was a racist. Nor is someone a racist who grew up using those terms who says them now without thinking about what they actually mean.
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Completely agree that this is how it
ought to be. But in today's society, we are seeing people get crucified for saying, doing, and thinking things decades ago that were not thought to be racist or sexist or homophobic (or maybe no big deal) at the time, but
are by today's ever-changing standards.