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Grouchy-Range-9032 , unattributed Report

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) How many witches were burned at the stake during the salem witch trials?

None. There’s no such things as witches, they burned innocent girls and women. Awful.

Final score:

170points

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FreeTheUnicorn 2 months ago

No one was burned at the stake in Salem. 19 hangings, one man pressed to death. More than 180 accused were not killed. Many were toetured. It's a stain on our history but so get your facts right.

188points

TheVendingMachineWas , Sora Shimazaki/pexels Report

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Open sexual harassment, unwanted touching, SA, etc against secretaries, female assistants, etc by their bosses. Woman were supposed to just grin and bear it.

Final score:

157points

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Johnny McFearless 2 months ago

Also the fact that women were only secretaries and assistants.

96points

Young_Old_Grandma , Mulyadi /unsplash Report

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Doctors going on duty for more than 24 hours straight.

Final score:

151points

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Tamra 2 months ago

I don't know how it is in other countries, but here in the US there has been a long-standing culture of over-working healthcare professionals. It's nearly ubiquitous to see doctors and nurses working insane hours, and it makes absolutely no sense.

77points

TrickySeagrass , Manoj Chauhan /unsplash Report

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Child marriage.

Final score:

150points

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WindySwede 2 months ago

🤮

55points

shutupandevolve , Pranidchakan Boonrom/pexels Report

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) The way some people treated pets. Leaving them outside. Hitting them.

Final score:

141points

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WindySwede 2 months ago

Talking about shooting cats just to prove they are real men.. no you are not, you are covering up some inside insecurity and feel you have to prove you are a real man to cover it up! 🤨🤕

55points

MamaKit92 , Inga Seliverstova /pexels Report

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Spousal r*pe. It was legal up until 1983 in Canada. It wasn’t until 1993 that it became illegal in ALL of the US; prior to that it was only illegal in 3 as of 1975. I’ve heard some men reminisce about the days when they didn’t need consent from their wives. I’ve even heard women condemn other women for having the “nerve” to ever deny their husbands sex. It’s disgusting.

Final score:

137points

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WonderWoman 2 months ago

Republicans are trying to bring that back as well

20points

Outrageous-Yak4884 , @coldbeer /pexels Report

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Bull fighting in Spain.

Final score:

131points

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Mavis 2 months ago

The pic looks like a rodeo not bullfighting. Rodeo is also disgusting.

106points

Flat_Ad1094 , Lucas Metz /unsplash Report

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Hitting children. Beating up children badly.

Final score:

126points

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cerinamroth 2 months ago

Hate to break it to you but still pretty common.

72points

Bizarre_Protuberance , John Trumbull Report

#10

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Definitely slavery, not just because it's a horrible thing to justify but also because people try to justify it *so often*.

One of the most popular lies in America is the lie that the so-called "founding fathers" can't be judged for owning slaves because that was accepted practice back then. In fact, the judge in the British Somerset case called slavery an "odious institution" in 1772: well before the US constitution was written. The abolition movement was very much in full swing in the anglosphere at the time. The Somerset ruling banned slavery in the British Isles in 1772. Canada banned slavery in 1793.

And yet Americans persist in pretending that slavery was widely accepted with no concerns at the time of the country's founding, just because they don't want to admit that the US founding fathers were bad people. They have their very own mythology, complete with heroes and villains, and they will not tolerate harsh criticism of those heroes.

Final score:

118points

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GettingCereal 2 months ago

There was also a major push to get abolition into the constitution, but the southern states threw such a hissy fit that the rest caved.

67points

#11

Just yesterday i had someone try telling me they regretted taking the covid vaccine and that "back than no one took vaccines".

I replied with "and people got polio".

whelplookatthat Report

Final score:

116points

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Black Cat 2 months ago

And smallpox and diphtheria and TB and measles and rubella and and and

14points

texaslucasanon , Monstera Production/pexels Report

#12

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) "My parents whipped my butt and screamed at me. I turned out fine."

Umm... no you didnt. You need therapy, boundaries, and a healthier friend group.

Final score:

113points

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Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 2 months ago

If you think child abuse was acceptable, you didn't turn it fine

59points

Monalisa9298 , Polina Tankilevitch/pexels Report

#13

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Open misogyny and sexual harassment in the workplace. I’m a 64 yo professional woman and the behavior of some my male colleagues and superiors was horrible. And no one batted an eye.

Final score:

100points

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El Dee 2 months ago

Still happens..

29points

#14

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Forced marriage.

anon , Aastha Bansal/UNSPALSH Report

Final score:

98points

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WindySwede 2 months ago

An scientific education and sexual education should be mandatory for everyone, all over the world! Let go of old s**t!

41points

rougecomete , Pavel Danilyuk /pexels Report

#15

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Adult musicians sleeping with puberty-aged groupies. Guarantee every single one of your faves did it or was in a band with someone who did.

Final score:

93points

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WonderWoman 2 months ago

I think that is still happening

42points

TwincessAhsokaAarmau , Uncredited DOJ photographer Report

#16

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Throwing rocks at Ruby Bridges.

Final score:

91points

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Weirdo with Internet 2 months ago

These people are still alive! This wasn't that long ago and even if it was, still wouldn't justify throwing rocks and insults at a child

57points

#17

Genital mutilation of children.

qmriis Report

Final score:

86points

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Not Who You Think 2 months ago (edited)

"It's a cultural/religious thing." Maybe you need to take a step back and really pay attention to what you're saying.

52points

PickleFluffy1387 , Andrea Piacquadio/pexels Report

#18

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Automatically needing to respect your elders (and anyone older than you) just because it's the 'right' thing to do, not because they deserve your respect or did anything to earn it, but just because.

Final score:

85points

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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 2 months ago

As Tony Benn said, you should respect everyone, until they give you good reason not to.

116points

AetherealSubject , Keira Burton/pexels Report

#19

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) All forms of bullying. It looked cool from people in high school according to my classmates. Now some of my classmates were now gone due to bullying. It’s not cool.

Final score:

84points

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Ace 2 months ago

Bullying was and is never cool. I really don't think anything has changed in this case, it's still just as common and bad as it used to be, just that a lot of it is done via modern tech rather than ust face to face these days.

40points

#20

Genociding Native Americans.

Jack-of-Hearts-7 Report

Final score:

84points

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Hans Georg 2 months ago

Genociding any people.

78points

#21

Horrific mistreatment of disabled people. It’s still not great on a general global scale, but at least we don’t get left in the woods as infants or stuck in freak shows to entertain the masses.

an_ineffable_plan Report

Final score:

82points

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WindySwede 2 months ago (edited)

And even just women who be "out of order"? Edit: like put in asylum for being anything her husband/dad didn't want to?

38points

BeeMyHomey , cottonbro studio/pexels Report

#22

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Ownership and the subservience of women. "Back in my day the women didn't vote or work, they waited on their knees for the husband to come home with a hot meal in one hand a strong drink in the other" along with a litany of other female slave fantasies men have of modern women.

Final score:

77points

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WindySwede 2 months ago

That is also a thing in the bible, if someone hurt a women so she miscarriages, they are supposed to pay money to her spouse or otherwise her father. That is nothing in the line of being an independent individual!

26points

#23

Lynching black people for failing to show the proper deference to a white man on the street.

Get_It_Hexyy Report

Final score:

75points

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Weirdo with Internet 2 months ago

Or looking at a white woman

47points

Grouchy-Display-457 Report

#24

Smoking everywhere--even hospitals.

Final score:

67points

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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 2 months ago

We were doing a good job of limiting smoking areas, but now vaping is taking its place with a vengeance. I regularly see (smell them first) people sneaking a vape inside restaurants. It's illegal and it ruins my meal out. Just selfish w4nkers.

31points

coffeedr1nk3rrr1 , Hobbies on a Budget/flickr Report

#25

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) My grandma was telling us about some random stuff about her life as a kid, the usual, and then she dropped that her neighbor would give her a quarter to see her underwear? when she was like 5-6? wild s**t

also cheating on your spouse .

Final score:

65points

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Not Who You Think 2 months ago

The 25 cents for a little girls underwear peek is truly awful, but I love how "cheating on your spouse" was kind of added as an afterthought.

31points

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#26

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Listening to stories from older colleagues there is so much stuff that was considered standard practice that would give Health and Safety an aneurysm these days. S**t like handling asbestos with zero protective equipment, even after people started realizing how bad it was for your health! Or guys working with natural gas lighting up a ciggie on the job site and it being perfectly fine because "we're not smoking near where people are working with gas at the moment".

ConstableBlimeyChips , Valiant Made/unsplash Report

Final score:

64points

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Marianne 2 months ago

My family are farmers. 20 years ago, a person would be ridiculed for wearing safety goggles or a face mask while harvesting potatoes. While on the machine, you're exposed to huge amounts of dust that gets into your face. I have asthma and couldn't stand it on dry days. Protective gear just wasn't an option.

31points

Puzzleheaded-Swan824 Report

#27

Hazing, overworking and basically bullying new employees. C**p like “it’s character building” or “well, I had to do it”. I think people perpetuate this nonsense because they are basically trying to get some sort of revenge.

Final score:

63points

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Kira Okah 2 months ago

Hazing has killed people.

42points

Upstairs-Storm1006 Report

#28

Gay jokes. Go watch movies from the 80's & 90's. Or just watch "Friends," there were cheap gay gags in basically every episode. .

Final score:

63points

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Marianne 2 months ago

True! I was so normal. Also using the term "gay" as a demeaning word in all kinds of situations.

34points

Doctor Strange 2 months ago

I'm ashamed to say that I did the same. All I can say is that I have learned better since then, and I try to now be a better person.

19points

Momma Jess 2 months ago

Years ago I had some teenage boys come up to my register at a convenience store, and one of them said something was gay to his buddy...and I grinned and looked at those boys while tapping my chest and said "Noooo, I'M gay, what you meant to say was 'that's dumb'" and the one turned red while the other about pissed himself laughing.

16points

Lila Allen 2 months ago

Sadly people still use r****d as an insult in exactly the same demeaning way

4points

Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 months ago

Kids in the Hall gets a pass though. Scott Thompson himself is gay so I'll give his Buddy Cole character a pass.

3points

cerinamroth 2 months ago (edited)

I used to pull people up on this at school in the early 90s. Hated it. Yes, I was a bit of an outcast at the time, but at least I can live with myself for standing up to other people. And I was always the one people trusted to come out to (and go to the family planning clinic with!), which I saw as a great honour and responsibility.

3points

Johnnynatfan 2 months ago

I used to do it a lot when I was younger not anymore

2points

Teachzebra 2 months ago

I’m a middle aged straight white guy. I used to use gay slurs and many other degrading comments routinely. I regret it enormously. This of course has resulted in some calling me “woke.” I tell them I prefer that to “bigot.”

14points

- 2 months ago

"I'm woke??? So I'm not having a nightmare about you???"

5points

Max Pasterski 2 months ago

I’m a gay person, and I don’t really feel offended by it, but I can understand that others are.

9points

Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 2 months ago

Friends aged horribly

6points

Sergio Bicerra 2 months ago

Some time ago I was thinking I wouldn't be friends with any of them.

3points

Kerry Fletcher 2 months ago

No offence but that's kinda gay

5points

Darthest Starfish 2 months ago

Yes, but words always have varied meanings throughout history. Gay also used to mean joyous, happy, cheerful.........I think the South Park episode about Harley riders applies here as well.

4points

Regina Holt 2 months ago

I'm not familiar with South Park, but, thank you for pointing out what "gay" used to mean.

0points

OneHappyPuppy 2 months ago

I'll broaden this post by saying any joke that makes a group of people the punchline.

3points

Bobby 2 months ago

The transphobic gags about Chandler's trans parent 💀

2points

Eve Mraz 1 month ago

His dad wasn't trans, his dad was a drag queen

0points

Michael Danhauer 2 months ago (edited)

It was a natural step towards societal acceptance of homosexuality. Human beings use humor to make things that are different from the established norm less frightening and as a result come to terms that much easier. Not condoning it just trying to make it easier to understand.

2points

Liz Mary 2 months ago

Now that I know that, I'm even happier I never saw friends. 🤷

1point

Pyla 2 months ago

It's funny they never really did that in Living Single. I hated Friends, though.

1point

nuberiffic 2 months ago

I still see kids 6ish year old saying this in school

0points

Stannous Flouride 2 months ago

There's a woman in Florida running against Matt Gaetz whose name is Gay Valimont. Her advisers suggested down the use of her name so she put out an ad with her mom explaining why she chose that name. (Obviously it was because she wanted a happy child) GV24Logo-t...f3-png.jpg

0points

Eric Berger MD 2 months ago

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LonelyLittleLeafSheep 2 months ago

Al Bundy was a bully, and recognizing and calling out past bad behaviors does not in any way equate to being anything like the Taliban.

12points

Pyla 2 months ago

Oh eric, if you really are an MD, I pity your patients. FFS.

7points

Eric Tapril 2 months ago (edited)

This is such arseshite that I can't even. Comedy is the biggest business it has ever, ever been. What has happened is not that we have lost our sense of humour, just that people have stopped praising you for being a cu*t.

5points

- 2 months ago

Waaaay back, folks didn't have one, either. Comedians could be arrested for swearing. Lenny Bruce comes to mind.

4points

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#29

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) I take care of a 95 year old woman with dementia who had a black lab as a child. The dogs name was “n**ger”. She sometimes talks about her dog and calls it by name, and everyone reacts how you’d expect, and she always says, “He needed a name! A dog needs a name!”

Not sure if it quite fits this thread, but I was reminded of it so I shared.

Informal_Flight_6932 , cottonbro studio /pexels Report

Final score:

62points

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Ace 2 months ago (edited)

Yeah, this one is a little out of place because although that term and the one it's derived from could have an insulting meaning if used in a certain context it was also commonly used in this way, perhaps much more outside the US, just because it means "black", ,with absolutely zero implied reference to people with that skin colour. Some people still get upset when they see "négro" used in languages like Spanish where that is literally all it means.

20points

#30

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Hitting a spouse. My favorite tv show of all time is “I Love Lucy” and I have such a hard time watching Ricky put Lucy over his knee. Makes my stomach turn.

DotsSpotsBots , CBS Report

Final score:

60points

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Pencil McGovern 2 months ago

"POW! Right in the kisser!" -Ralph Kramden to his wife, Alice, in about every episode of "The Honeymooners"

7points

captn_morgan951 , FourthAge/reddit Report

#31

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Maybe riding around in the open bed of a pickup truck all over town and highways when I was a kid in the 70s.

Final score:

54points

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IguanaStampede 2 months ago

That was fun! We called them urban hayrack rides.

25points

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#32

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Cat calling. Honestly can’t remember a time it was okay, but I’m always confused when guys try to justify themselves with “it’s just a comment. It’s always been like this” when I (a woman) get upset. Like I know my a*s is amazing but keep it to yourself, you know?

Brilliant-Hurry-5479 , Ashinia Junior Miller/pexels Report

Final score:

54points

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Apachebathmat 2 months ago

“Thank you for attending our wedding today, I knew Wayne was the one when he shouted ‘WHHHHHHOOOOOA B***H, TIDDIES ON FIRE’ out the window of a speeding car”

63points

ExperienceInitial875 , Andrea Piacquadio /pexels Report

#33

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) My friend quite seriously told me she didn’t understand the issue with Bill Cosby because quaaludes were all the rage and this is just how it used to be for women around men. Never thought I’d see myself storming out of a Los
Angeles McDonald’s in anger but sure enough it did indeed happen.

Final score:

51points

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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 2 months ago (edited)

Had to read that twice to confirm the friend was indeed a woman. Talk about brainwashed! (Spelling edit)

35points

The_Good_Guyy , ermias Tarekegn/pexels Report

#34

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Not back then, but in the present.

I have heard from a relative that pregnancies of indigenous children in my country are normal because it is "part of their culture".

Final score:

51points

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penguino (they/them) 2 months ago

The comments here are weird y’all can go look for yourself-but also, wtf? Kids shouldn’t be pregnant. Period.

30points

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#35

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Drinking and driving. Every adult over 60 wants me to understand why those were the good ol days.

AtomAntvsTheWorld , energepic.com /pexels Report

Final score:

50points

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Ace 2 months ago

Rubbish. I mean yes, is used to be a lot worse, i.e. more common, but you really won't find many people who would suggest that it was better back then as a result.

39points

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#36

Enforced poverty.

Final score:

48points

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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 2 months ago

This has always been a popular policy amongst capitalists - without poor people, nobody would work for sh1t wages in their dangerous factories.

37points

#37

Racism.

hBoBh Report

Final score:

46points

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Urbangirlatl 2 months ago

I think I understand where Strings is coming from. When the CEO of Barilla pasta made a neg comment about including LGBT in their ads, I thought something along the lines of "thanks for letting me know where you stand so I can buy your competitor's product". It's not endorsing hate speech, but it's how we know we are dealing with @-holes.

18points

aesthetic_kiara , Uriel Mont/pexels Report

#38

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Physical abuse.

Final score:

44points

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WindySwede 2 months ago

Any*

16points

areUgoingtoreadthis , Yan Krukau/pexels Report

#39

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) "When I was starting out, our bosses abused us 10 times as badly as what you get pampered with, you don't know how good you got it".

Final score:

43points

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WindySwede 2 months ago

"I'm an unpaid intern with zero health care!"

25points

#40

Smoking at 12.

Temporal_Somnium Report

Final score:

43points

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Li’l E. 2 months ago

My mom started smoking at 13, in 1959.

11points

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#41

Eugenics.

NoComposer1528 Report

Final score:

18points

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Becky Samuel 2 months ago

You might be surprised just how many people are still in favor of some form of eugenics. You see what is outwardly a mild version of it on these boards all the time. A comment like "There should be some sort of test for people who want to be parents." or "People with [insert name of illness here] shouldn't be having children." These comments are not generally condemned.

11points

boredtxan , SHVETS production/pexels Report

#42

“What's The Worst Thing People Have Tried To Justify With ‘It Was Normal Back Then’?” (40 Answers) Doctors did not appreciate being told to wash their hands before touching a patient once upon a time.

Final score:

16points

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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 2 months ago

I don't think anyone is saying we should go back to this.

6points

#43

Circumcision.

MrKnives Report

Final score:

15points

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Not Who You Think 2 months ago

If you truly believe that there's a higher power, then why would you want to alter their creation?

11points

cheery_diamond_425 Report

#44

Doctors getting female patients to undress to listen to their heart. I was 20 and had to strip off for this male specialist to be a perve. Lots of other instances with a doctor at my clinic when I was 15 - 16 being a creep.

Final score:

14points

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Eric Tapril 2 months ago

In medical notes before patient had access, the acronym TUBE on a female patient's notes stood for "totally unnecessary breast examination".

2points

#45

Taking my social security number and taking loans out when I was a toddler but not my brother or half sister. When I confronted my mom about it, she said everyone else was doing it. Um no, most people aren’t stealing one of their children’s identities selectively and then taking hundreds of thousands in loans out. Lolz.

nemerosanike Report

Final score:

12points

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Ace 2 months ago

That is just a fsked-up financial and legal system. No excuse but this should not be, and in most of the world with a better-regulated financial sector it is not, possible.

9points

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What’s the worst thing people have tried to justify with “It was normal back then, everyone did it”?

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UKGrandad 2 months ago

*Note to the usual suspects: please read what I'm about to say for understanding before downvoting it. Thank you* We can all feel morally superior to our ancestors because we know better these days, right? However, how many of us stop to consider which practices we think are morally and legally sound today may, in the future, see us as soundly condemned as we condemn past generations? What do we shrug off as perfectly normal that might make our descend scream 'WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING'?

30points

Michael Largey 2 months ago (edited)

Some people knew better back then too, but the others didn't listen to them.

13points

Pencil McGovern 2 months ago

I was raised by hippies in NYC in the 60s and 70s. In the 80's and 90's when more LGBT+ started coming out,, I (straight/cis) would be complimented for my "progressive" and "accepting" views and my public support of equal rights. I said 1000 times, I deserve no credit. I was raised that way. I have no idea who I'd be or what I'd believe if I'd been raised differently. I promoted LGBT+ equality, at least in part, because the culture I was raised in, the culture I lived in, *allowed* me to. I have no idea if I would have had the courage of those convictions if I'd been somewhere else. I think we, the masses, tend to give ourselves far more credit for having real courage which only truly belongs to a few.

3points

A Jones 2 months ago

I agree. Realizing stuff that is messed up isn't a form of weakness, it is strength.

1point

Freya the Wanderer 2 months ago

You definitely have a point there. I once started an Ask Pandas thread about what people may find unacceptable in 100 years. You can read it here: https://www.boredpanda.com/unacceptable-things-100-years-from-now-ask-pandas-community/

1point

IamMe 2 months ago

A lot of the things on this list are still happening today.

8points

Fun Size 2 months ago

A lot of them are still happening, yes, but at least they're no longer considered normal or acceptable by society at large.

4points

CK 2 months ago

Of course none of those things are justified; however, we shouldn't give ourselves as individuals any credit for not going along with child sacrifice and slavery in a society where that isn't normalized. The sad truth is that it is incredibly statistically unlikely that you wouldn't have gone along with those things if you had been born in a previous generation. And if you want to prove to yourself that you would have been the one to oppose the brutality? Defy the socially accepted cruelty that's happening now. Fight to end all slavery in the world, to give disabled people all reasonable accommodations with dignity, and to get food and healthcare to all who need it.

5points

Lola Donathan 2 months ago

My grandma had a man show himself to her one day when she was a kid and all my great grandma said was"oh I'm sorry sweetie,but you know,that's just how men are". SERIOUSLY!?

2points

CK 2 months ago

I hate how men engaging in predatory behavior is "boys will be boys" but women wearing comfortable clothes that don't cover everything is "slutty" to the old fashioned worldview.

0points

Damned_Cat 2 months ago

I love old movies and television, but it's so cringe when I see how they used to make it a humorous plot point when a married man chased women or cheated on his wife. At the same time, any woman who dared to even call attention to herself was an evil harlot.

1point

BravePanda 2 months ago

I used to be sexually harassed in high school in a daily basis because I had big breasts. Boys would hold my arms and hands behind my back, so other boys could oogle. I couldn't be alone after school because I would get cornered by a boy wanting "just to touch." It happened daily during and after school, on campus. It was the 90s.

0points

Justbecause 2 months ago

Not using pain relief for many medical procedures because 'it doesn't actually hurt' or 'they wont remember it'. Pain relief is cheap and readily available it should be used when medical/veterinary procedures are done.

0points

Justbecause 2 months ago

Aboriginal Australians were not considered human until the 70s. They were considered native animals and were treated as such. Many people still think its ok the treat Aboriginal people like this. Australia isnt the only country to treat original people as less than human.

0points

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UKGrandad 2 months ago

30points

Michael Largey 2 months ago (edited)

Some people knew better back then too, but the others didn't listen to them.

13points

Pencil McGovern 2 months ago

3points

A Jones 2 months ago

I agree. Realizing stuff that is messed up isn't a form of weakness, it is strength.

1point

Freya the Wanderer 2 months ago

1point

IamMe 2 months ago

A lot of the things on this list are still happening today.

8points

Fun Size 2 months ago

A lot of them are still happening, yes, but at least they're no longer considered normal or acceptable by society at large.

4points

CK 2 months ago

5points

Lola Donathan 2 months ago

My grandma had a man show himself to her one day when she was a kid and all my great grandma said was"oh I'm sorry sweetie,but you know,that's just how men are". SERIOUSLY!?

2points

CK 2 months ago

I hate how men engaging in predatory behavior is "boys will be boys" but women wearing comfortable clothes that don't cover everything is "slutty" to the old fashioned worldview.

0points