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Most boomers spent the 60s beating the shit out of Civil Rights protestors and spitting on children because their schools were desegregated.

I think that’s just a Southern thing. Living in the North, my grandparents never discussed beating the shit out of civil rights protesters. Nor did they spout overtly racist things.

They were prejudice, but it was more of a I’ve never seen anyone with that color skin and it’s different so I’m uncomfortable.

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explodicle@local106.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I had a very similar experience, didn’t think my family was racist at all until I got engaged. Northerners just hide it.

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- Sharkwellington@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Northerners just don’t engage if it’s not in their backyard. It’s a lot easier since there is a lower density of POC.
  
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givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Oh wow…

Yeah if they never told their grandkids they were huge pieces of shit, they most not have been. That absolutely proves they were part of the 1% of that generation actually on the right side of history.

It’s not like as a generation they’ve spent 60 years lying about what they were like back then…

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- GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The thing about racist relatives is that they DO SPOUT THAT SHIT AT HOME. Where do you think kids hear it first?
  
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Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
100%. Grew up in the Northeast, never experienced true racism in my family until I met my Arkansas relatives.

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BeautifulMind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Living in the North, my grandparents never discussed beating the shit out of civil rights protesters. Nor did they spout overtly racist things.

TBH when I hear someone say that about their parents (they didn’t say racist shit out loud) I take that to mean: they didn’t say that sort of stuff out loud.

I just think about that as a sort of Schrodinger’s Racism- there’s an unknown distribution of super-shitty racists out there in Yankeedom too, but they’re neither racist nor non-racist until they open their mouths about it in un-coded ways. That it’s more covert there than it is in other places doesn’t really tell us if it’s more or less prevalent, it could just be telling us that in Yankeedom the racists feel ever-so-slightly more inhibited about being out loud about it.

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