# Is anyone you love a bigot? How about persons you've loved in the past? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 7, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-you-love-a-bigot-how-about-persons-youve-loved-in-the-past/637023 "2012-10-07T21:52:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-you-love-a-bigot-how-about-persons-youve-loved-in-the-past/637023/61 "2012-10-11T17:06:07Z")
You’d think my boyfriend is a bigot by all the ethnic slurs he uses but I think it’s really just the way they spoke where he grew up. Most of our (well, really his) friends do the same around each other.Everybody is a jock or a boghopper or a Paki but nobody actually has any actual hatred as far as I can tell. It’s simply not a big deal to them ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-you-love-a-bigot-how-about-persons-youve-loved-in-the-past/637023/62 "2012-10-11T17:12:32Z")
My Brother and my Dad. They both know better than to spew that crap around me, but I sometimes still catch them at it when I walk into a room. That particular part of them makes me sick; and contributes to the fact that our visits are shortish and far between. The fact that our Great-Grandmother was a slave in Georgia seems to make no difference to my brother; and the conenction to his children makes no difference to my Dad. I could really barf just thinking about it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-you-love-a-bigot-how-about-persons-youve-loved-in-the-past/637023.md?page=3)