@stux@mstdn.social I grew up in a not-quite-THAT-bad-politically area and the distance provided by time has given me so much to think about. Like, yes, I used to be on the wrong side of a lot of stuff I shouldn't have been because that was the environment and I didn't know better, but now I see some people who used to be tolerable at worst, even by today's standards, deviating towards cartoon levels of evil, and it's sad in so many ways.