Finding out how many adults that you looked up to as a kid were actually ignorant bigots. - ThreadSky

blackazizanansi.bsky.social • 78 days ago

Finding out how many adults that you looked up to as a kid were actually ignorant bigots.

Reposted from nai 🦋 AKA the godmother of BlackSky 🥹

3. What is the adult version of finding out Santa isn’t real?

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eldrmllnl485.bsky.social•78 days ago

Believing most people were somewhat reasoned and maybe not kind, but not outright malicious either

kjos34.bsky.social•77 days ago

This truth definitely hurt more than learning that Santa/Tooth Fairy/Easter Bunny weren’t real. It still haunts me.

1in8billion.bsky.social•77 days ago

Finding out that the author of my favorite book (to the point of obsession) *of all time* was a child predator who abused her own children. I can't think of the book without immediately remembering that fact.

pettywhite.bsky.social•77 days ago

my favorite uncle said "my *immigrant workers of a specific nationality*" when i was about 25 or 26

i washed my hands of him right there on the spot, and told him why

sporadical.bsky.social•77 days ago

Mel Gibson. He made really good movies and then went Christian Nationalist or whatever he’s up to these days. He got a lot of love for Braveheart, but if you study history, the signs were all there

untilwemeetagain.bsky.social•77 days ago

He was raised in a very right wing/white supremacist sect of Catholicism that preaches Holocaust denial. He has always been a bigot, he just didn't advertise it.

sporadical.bsky.social•76 days ago

Wow did not know that. It’s bizarre how many are popping up out of the woodwork now that it’s socially acceptable

janeflames.bsky.social•77 days ago

Any benefit of the doubt I ever extended to anyone has been permanently rescinded. Show and prove or kindly remain at arm's length.

thadochocinco.bsky.social•78 days ago

my mind immediately went to Hulk Hogan

neilljenkins.bsky.social•78 days ago

Finding out the drummer from System of a Down is a trump supporter.

harrison-bergeron.bsky.social•77 days ago

That does not compute

gatorgirl1974.bsky.social•77 days ago

💯

anubis1701.bsky.social•78 days ago

We got a lot of them in GenX.

stacy-clouds.net•78 days ago

And still are...

untilwemeetagain.bsky.social•77 days ago

And sexual assaulters. So many of them. It's exhausting.

patmch51.bsky.social•77 days ago

The cast of Monty Python hurts me to this day

rhymeswithteeth.bsky.social•78 days ago

Been spending a lot of time separating the art from the artist, and also wondering if I should

xandari.bsky.social•78 days ago

I think Orson Scott Card was the first eye opening one for me.

abbylark.bsky.social•77 days ago

Big same. I was at ground zero on his forums and though we were pretty close knit, it was stressful

isabellajaimie.bsky.social•77 days ago

Might sound stupid but finding out the officials we elected to fight for us don’t give a shit enough to not break the constitution and let an insurrectionist run for office. Spineless enough to just smile and let them in anyway despite it being dangerous for +340mil Americans. I was so naive.

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