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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
You totally miss my (and fringey's) point. Yes, just as prevalent as ever in some parts of the country. Exactly. Homophobic comments are commonplace and people don't think a thing about it. Not where you live. Bravo. Try spending some time in Texas or the Deep South. And stop arguing about this with us until you have.
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I spent a good portion of my childhood in the rural deep South, and I worked in the urban South before law school. Those who used to speak all the time about "gay homos" and and "stringing them up" and "negros" and "keeping an eye on them" don't do that nearly as much anymore. Hell, some of them are, spend a lot of time with, or are married to, "gay homos" and "negros" these days. Sports and entertainment have changes peoples' views, too.
Things change. People change. Attitudes change. It's not gone, but it's not like it used to be. Do you have any idea what the people still making those comments today were like in the 80s? I do, because they were my neighbors, relatives and friends. I disagree strongly with your ill-informed feelings about social attitudes in the South; let's leave it at that.
Boy, this post reminds me what a culture shock it was to move to the north in the 80s. Like stepping across time...
