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walkingman

(10,969 posts)
9. I hope so because their indoctrination of young people (the most venerable in our society)
Wed Apr 15, 2026, 06:09 PM
19 hrs ago

should be criminal. The Bible Belt is an example of the racism, misogyny, and white nationalism that this kind of messaging which becomes multi-generational. I have seen it my entire life.

Once indoctrinated it is awful hard to change unless you move and are exposed to a wider segment of the population that includes minorities, and more open-minded people.

In my case after college, my work took me to Houston and later Austin where I met a genre of people much more compatible to my worldview. (It didn't hurt that it was the late 60s when "The Times they were a-Changin".

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