carnivaloftherandom replied to your post “That awkward moment when an open-minded person you’ve literally never...”
The world changed enough for them to stop filtering because they finally feel threatened by loss of privilege. It's not that you missed it, it's that they camouflaged it. Possibly even from themselves.
goawaywithjae replied to your post “That awkward moment when an open-minded person you’ve literally never...”
Ewwww. Did you say anything?
Yeah, I did. Just said "uh, can we back up and talk about that blatant bit of racism." Though we were texting, we talked a bit. He swears he didn't think it was racist, but to me, all that says is that he's grown up around such a deeply white area of the country that he has frame of reference for anything outside of the US.
In retrospect I should have known. When he came out here to visit me once, we talked about Mexican Food and he said "my favorite mexican food is Taco Bell." And didn't believe me when I said there was nothing Mexican about it.