No More....
My greatest Pet Peeve? People who use, ‘well I was raised that way’ as an excuse to justify their bad behavior or dismiss it when people call them out for saying/making racist, sexist, homophobic remarks and/or gestures.
Saying you do it because you were raised in an environment where it was common, at the time, or not frowned upon, as it is today, is no excuse.
None.
I was born and raised and live in the deep south, but you start using racial slurs, make sexist comments or insult anyone with THE GLBTQ Community and I will call you out on it and if you don’t like it, get out of my home and my life.
Regardless of how or where you were raised and what you were exposed to as a child, we all reach an age when right and wrong is obvious and you have to accept the fact that some (maybe all) of what you were surrounded by and taught as a child was wrong.
How you were raised isn’t an excuse for being a hatful bigot; you may have been exposed to that behavior, but you have the power to change yourself and you have the power to teach your children and grandchildren and others around you, that there is a better way.