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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8499827" data-attributes="member: 7026617">There's a difference between "things become okay" and "things exist in a context".  If you don't pay attention to how people are raised and what the people around them are doing, you essentially do the moral equivalent of the people who expect everyone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.  You say its just as easy to get to a good place in your attitudes when everything around you is reinforcing a bad one as it is when its doing the opposite, and yeah, I'm not going to follow you there.(Again, this is not  directly about the specific topic of this thread; there's things you can say about the ubiquitousness of racial stereotyping at the time, but the descriptions here show that this would have been pretty gross even by the standards of the day, and we're not required to ignore it.)</blockquote>