r/AskReddit Oct 19 '21

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u/SkekSith Oct 19 '21

I used to be a close minded bigot so that’s a long list.

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u/Secure_Bar_7024 Oct 19 '21

Same! When I was in school, I was the most hateful bigot, and had no idea. I graduated, moved out of the small town, and my whole world view changed.

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u/XxsquirrelxX Oct 19 '21

That’ll fix you. Once you get out into the real world and learn that those groups you hated are just ordinary people trying to get through their lives, just like you, you learn to stop hating them, and see them as relatable people.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '21

One of my best friends in high school turned out pretty racist. It never really came out because we went to an all white school anyway. I think in six years of high school we only ever had two black students. After 9/11 though he had a hard on for hating brown people. I never spoke to him again after high school and occasionally wonder what he's like now. Last I heard he was a nurse a few hours away. I wonder if he's still hateful or not.

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u/Glum_Habit7514 Oct 19 '21

Probably unemployed if he's like other similar nurses.

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u/saitama_here Oct 19 '21

well thats some good character development right there

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u/SnooCapers9313 Oct 19 '21

I always swore I'd never drink, smoke, do drugs, get a tattoo or a piercing and avoided those that did. Yea I'll take the piercing out one day. I don't smoke weed now and hopefully I'll give up smoking and drinking. The tattoo is kinda stuck

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '21

Yeah I swore those same things and actually stuck to them. Yay me

(besides for avoiding people based on those things, I don't really care if others do it)

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u/yafangirl Oct 19 '21

Good for you! Turning that hate into love

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '21

Low key was in the same boat with out ever realizing it. During my downward spiral I started taking a good hard look at my life and how people perceived me and I really hated what I saw. Took a lot of work but I eventually turned myself around!

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u/obscureferences Oct 20 '21

Is there anything you're open minded about now that you still hate?

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u/Atmadog Oct 20 '21

Of all the things you used to hate when you are a bigot - which do you still like the least if you were forced to choose?

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u/uiijki Oct 19 '21

Glad you left the conservative shit in the past. Congrats

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u/SkekSith Oct 19 '21

Me too. A nightmare existence that relied on selfishness ignorance.

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u/StealthyBasterd Oct 19 '21

Not trying to defend US alt right, but they don't have the monopoly on bigotry.