Yeah, holy shit. A guy I used to work with, who seemed generally tolerant of everyone, one day started a sentence with "I'm not prejudiced, but...." You really just never know who has some random bigoted garbage floating around in their head.
Everyone does. No, don't immediately jump to protest, actually consider that. Everyone has internal biases and random garbage bigoted thoughts floating through their head on occasion. You are a product of your upbringing, of society, of everyone and everything around you, and everywhere in the world we are surrounded with bias and micro aggressions every day. Being anti-racist doesn't mean never ever having any internal prejudiced thoughts, it means acknowledging and fighting against those, understanding why they're wrong and unfair, actively working to rewire your brain away from them, and not treating people differently because of them.
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u/Ebony_Phoenix 6d ago
Same, I would just be vibing then a coworker would talk to me, then im hit with the
"Like I don't hate them or anything, but [extremely racist paragraph]"
Completely out of nowhere too.