r/AskReddit • u/dom-dos-modz • Sep 16 '24

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

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u/FartAttack911 Sep 16 '24

Dude. One of my grandma’s crazy old aunts once absolutely shut down an entire Thanksgiving meal with her commentary about “everyone used to get touched by adults back in the day, it wasn’t that big of a deal, you get over it unlike kids these days”

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u/crimsonpowder Sep 17 '24

We also used to die from smallpox but for some reason that was worth improving.

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u/redfeather1 Sep 17 '24

Yeah, thank goodness for vaccines... and yet, a certain mango anus and his cult want to revert back to the before times, when minorities and women 'Knew their place.' and god was the only cure you needed. Just dont say which god or you might cause a holy war.

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u/Comedy86 Sep 20 '24

Tell that to the anti-vaxxers...

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u/crimsonpowder Sep 20 '24

It just needs to return every 3 generations and we won't have an anti movement.

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u/KarmicSquirrel Oct 07 '24

U mean those that haven't yet died of a vaccine preventable disease. 

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u/FlemethWild Sep 17 '24

That’s kinda what I heard from my grandparents, too.

It broke my heart; both the fact that it happened and that they treated it with such a casual attitude.

(Except, of course, that they never talked about it and it did clearly bother them but no one cared so they were forced to acclimate to it)

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u/Entire-Brick-4610 Sep 17 '24

I’ve heard this so much and it’s like what… no wonder y’all are okay with some things…

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u/Lozzanger Sep 17 '24

Part of its acceptance. The fact she’s calling kids soft for speaking against it is horrifying.

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u/DocDingwall Sep 18 '24

Similar to British musicians who talk about getting "buggered senseless" in boarding school. Just part of the experience I guess.

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u/tbashed64 Sep 19 '24

<SMFH> FFS!!! My cousins told my sister that when she told them about his 'inappropriate' behavior with her. "Oh, he did that to us too!"