• Alto@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    People that didn’t grow up in environments where you’re surrounded by shitty, bigoted opinions don’t understand just how fucking hard and how long it takes to deprogram yourself from that shit. Took me longer than 18.

    Once he starts personally getting on stage and being a bigoted shitbag, I’m more than fine with putting him on blast. Til then, I’m willing to give the kid at least some of the benefit of the doubt.

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      6 months ago

      Exactly. Shitbirds of a shitfeather flock together.

      But until he does so…

      If the world boxes him in (and I guarantee the kid feels boxed in), they’re force him to become the piece of shit the world expects him to be…

      Like, I dont envy this kid one bit, but if you don’t allow him an escape hatch…

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        6 months ago

        I really, really don’t like this growing trend of refusing to believe that people can change. I was caught on the young, dumb teenage libertarian > far right pipeline fucking hard. If I hadn’t had friends that recognized that and (figuratively) knocked some sense into me, I’m not entirely certain