(Long) Do you ever wonder if you'll end up being the intolerant grandparent in the next generation?

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Alright, all of this talk about transracial has gotten me a little freaked out for the future. Today I had a convo with my grandparents about it and we were saying, what if one day Transracial is an acceptable thing and all of us who didn't support it originally for whatever reason will be looked upon as the intolerant elderly group of our own current generation?

At first I said, we've got some of this stuff backed up by science now which helps. Studies/research have been done to give us proper info; we can now distinguish between sex and gender, etc. But then they brought up a good point. Back when THEY were younger, there was tons of ~research~ and ~biological~ studies/experiments conducted on LGBT ppl that fueled their homophobic/transphobic opinions and truly made them believe that they were correct.

It's got me thinking, way back then, very few ppl accepted gender as simply being a concept rather than something biological. But what if one day in the next 50 years the next generation decides to accept, say, race as a concept, (not the physical aspect obvi) and transracial truly becomes a widely supported thing. And then all of us who called Rachel Dozeal a phony and in general expressed our disinterest in supporting transracial end up being the intolerant grandparents of the generation. 🤔 Like, kids will go to school and be like, "OMG my grandma says transracial ppl aren't a thing! She's so racialphobic!" and then all the other kids gasp in horror.

I feel like I didn't really explain this well, sorry, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on this if you have any. And I know that this probably won't happen in 50 years but I think it's an interesting thing to at least consider as I'm sure 50 years ago ppl didn't really expect so many ppl to be (thankfully) so tolerant nowadays.

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Transracial is not a thing.  I don't care what pseudo science they create to justify it. I can't wake up one day saying I am a White person and suddenly get hit with the white privilege wand.  I will be that grandparent letting my fam know that it is a crock of shit.

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Me: if the racist BS that is transracialism ever attempts to be accepted by society.

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I don't think that will happen. I do expect cultural shifts. I don't really think it's that difficult to keep up. My mom does and she's 73.

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To be honest, I'm the intolerant grandma now and I'm not even close to 30. I have really old fashioned and conservative views. Give it 40 years and Ill want to dig my own grave.

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Depends. My grandparents are fairly tolerant for their age. But both of them are starting to get dementia. Sometimes they're stuck in the past mentally and can say something that's not politically correct anymore and get very very confused when you remind them that's not ok anymore. When they're lucid they're very tolerant- maybe not 100% accepting but they'd never say or do anything to put someone down. It's more private to them. I think it's just very hard for them to really be accepting when they have a hard time remembering if they had breakfast. Their memories from when they were young (and they're in their late 80s now) are the most clear so it's harder to be accepting when you're still mentally 60ish years behind the times.

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If one day being transracial isn't something that is inherently harmful, then I will support it. But from what I've heard from a lot of poc, it's not okay and simply perpetuates harmful ideas and values. Being transgender doesn't do that though, that's the difference.

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Something else for further study is the effects of artificial hormone disrupters on wildlife. There was no way to study the long-term effects of birth control hormones on future generations when scientists were deeming it to be safe, but current studies are showing that birth control runoff in the water (68% of a dose is peed out, plus some people pour whole prescriptions down the toilet) has been causing fertility problems in fish, and causing fish to have cross-gender characteristics, like growing eggs in testes and sperm in their ovaries. BUT the crazy part is that it doesn't effect the first fish exposed to the hormones, it effects that fish's GRANDbabies. 
Now, take a look at our generation, compared to our grandparents' generation, and the time when The Pill took off. 
It's certainly something to consider.

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No. I'm not a bigot nor a racist.

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