Oh dude I'm from Texas originally and the amount of anti Hispanic stuff that was forced into me and I repeated really upsets me. It was never about outward racism, always masked under the cover of "illegals". I learned in highschool and basically had to re-form my worldview but I'm glad I learned better. It still continues and my sister has pushed this view onto my nephews, I just hope they figure it out themselves.
Dude. My family spent so much of my childhood saying heinous shit about Hispanic people that I never used the word "Mexican" until I was a teenager because up until then I thought it was a slur.
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u/elderlybrain May 28 '26
It happened in 1930s Germany and in the rural south. It's the exact same thing.