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KentuckyWoman

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22. I've heard similar.

Fri Jul 3, 2020, 12:51 PM

Jul 2020

I've always made a habit of calling people out on this sort of idiocy. Used to make some attempt to be polite about it but not so much anymore. I just let them have it.

I hope by the time your daughter no longer lives in your home, this current round of wakening produces some tangible results - at least as far the police and judicial system. Changing attitudes basically takes generations dying out. In the meantime, we can attempt to control how these hateful people behave in public - in jobs, government etc - through laws, voting etc.

I have found shunning doesn't help, they just retreat to a smaller group of like minded haters.

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