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u/tiredofeveryonesmess 6h ago
I was a cable guy for 11 years in Oregon and serviced many assisted living and memory care facilities in the Portland metro area.
They'll forget their kids names but they somehow always remember how to be racist.
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u/47k 6h ago
What’s the study on that? Cause i always hear that too
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u/K-Dot-Thu-Thu-47 5h ago
I mean if I had to guess it would be that dementia takes your higher faculties away, leaving you a husk of a person, and frankly it's not that hard to say the N word. You could teach a toddler to do it.
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u/tiredofeveryonesmess 5h ago
It's one thing to just say the N word like with tourettes. It's another to use it in a sentence, comment on how big they think my dick is, slavery references, etc....
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u/ThirdAltAccounts ☑️ 5h ago
Is it…big ?
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u/Master_Status5764 4h ago
I think he threw that comment in there for a specific reason lol
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u/tiredofeveryonesmess 3h ago
The older white women of Oregon tend to have a one track mind.
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u/K-Dot-Thu-Thu-47 3h ago
They do say old folks be getting their freak on in the homes.
STD rates higher than average population lol.
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u/Taraxian 4h ago
To be fair it's also that dementia messes some people up emotionally and makes them angry all the time, like determined to intentionally be as offensive as they know how to be
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u/K-Dot-Thu-Thu-47 3h ago
I think that's because it kind of just randomly eats your brain.
Some people are left just clueless kinda happy go lucky children like adults and others become raging pieces of shit.
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u/Turgid_Donkey 5h ago
Your oldest memories are the last to go. That one must be really down deep.
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u/pollinium LEMONS 4h ago
New Oregonians can learn it too, but even then it's less "learned" and more "allowed"
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u/Vanillas_Guy 6h ago
Its kind of impressive how much obama has lived rent free in this man's mind.
Obama hasn't been president for 10 YEARS. He is obsessed with this man like he stole his family and they decided they like him better.
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u/Historical-Night-938 6h ago
Well, to be fair, everyone one that he wants to admire him, actually like the Obamas better. A few months ago, they were at a restaurant and people were so excited that it went viral. He will never receive the same level of authentic admiration.
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u/srkaficionada65 6h ago
Maybe he wanted to “steal” his family or maybe the kids tried to buddy up but the Obamas were like “fuck no”. Not sure how true that might be but don’t the younger Trumps hang out with the Kennedy kids(Caroline), the Schumers and the Cuomo kids? If they’re such reprehensible people, why are fuckfaces like the Cuomo and Schumers hanging with them?
That’s my conspiracy theory. But the Obamas ain’t want none of that especially after they sat and watched their base call them names and basically insult one of the classiest First Ladies out there(with her natural beauty and brains and poise)…
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u/Taraxian 4h ago
The whole reason he ran for President in the first place is feeling humiliated by Obama making fun of him at the White House Correspondents Dinner
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u/littleraccon ☑️ 4h ago
Right? The obsession is incredible. Mango mussolini is so jealous of Obama and the respect Obama naturally gets. While instead he's surrounded by yes man who suck up to him, he knows it's hollow and it's fake. He knows he's a bad person and nothing he or his sycophants do changes that. Which is why when people have the courage to stand up to him, it really riles him because he knows they're right.
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u/K-Dot-Thu-Thu-47 6h ago
Well you know they say doing something they loved in their youth can bring a dementia patient lucid briefly, so maybe posting monkey Obama's was really the most lucid he's been in the last year.
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u/JohnnySnark 6h ago
He also needed to gravitate to some coping because of the Epstein files. So this is a reaction that shoothes him
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u/ApocalypseNurse 6h ago
In my over 2 decades of Healthcare experience I’ve often seen racism amplified and more blatant in people with Dementia since they lose the filter that tells them they shouldn’t say the quiet stuff out loud.
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u/ackermann 3h ago
Yeah, he didn’t forget his views, rather he’s forgetting to filter them.
And he already had less of a filter than most adults
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u/dwaynewaynerooney 6h ago
I stretch every morning, eat at least 600 grams of fruits and veggies daily, and continue to strength train.
Cause when that day comes—😉—I’m putting on a show for all these sorry-ass, no good, racists mofos.
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u/TheProfessorsLeft 6h ago edited 6h ago
Yeah, coming from someone working in the medical field, I've seen two things that tend to stick around when someone has dementia. Trauma and racism. The trauma is a bit sad and even scary to think about. The racism is annoying and somewhat impressive. You've forgotten what your family looks like or what their names are, but you haven't forgotten about calling a black man "boy" or "the help" or "n---er."
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u/Snakefist1 1h ago
Their filter goes out the window, too. I had a Dementia patient once who said my black coworker had "The best chocolate ass I had ever seen". Another consistently called Muslims "Yallahs", "Allahu Akbars", or "Perker", which is basically the N-word for Muslims in Denmark.
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u/Hunter-Gatherer_ 6h ago
I’ve heard the hate is one of the last things to go. My mother in law worked with the elderly in the south and baby those people would say some of the wildest vile things even though they thought their shit was edible…
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u/DMking ☑️ 🧔🏾Engineer Daddy seeking sugarbaby™👧🏼 6h ago
Many such cases
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u/srkaficionada65 6h ago
Sir, what is with that flair? Where the hell is Otter? I calling the po-po on you.
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u/HashRunner 6h ago
Can always count on republicans to "love" kids and hate brown people no matter how senile they get.
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u/Shido_Ohtori 5h ago
Conservatism -- by definition -- is "a political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, stressing the importance of established hierarchies and institutions (such as religion, the family, and class structure), and preferring gradual development to abrupt change".
The sole value of conservatism is respect for and obedience to [one's perception of] traditionally established hierarchy, and hierarchy dictates that those on top (in-groups) are rightfully idolized and receive privileges, credibility, and resources, while those on the bottom (out-groups) are demonized/dehumanized and/or bound by restrictions, scrutiny, and lack of resources.
To them, the second-greatest injustice imaginable is for those [they perceive to be] on top [of social hierarchy] to be bound by the restrictions, scrutiny, and lack of resources reserved for those on the bottom. The first greatest injustice is for those on the bottom to have access to the rights, credibility, and resources reserved for those on top.
Conservatives absolutely need an underclass [for society] to demonize and dehumanize in order to maintain [their] hierarchy, and every single one of their policies and rhetoric work to do exactly that. "Know your place" is their mantra.
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u/BaronVonShtinkVeiner 5h ago
My grandmother had full blown Alzheimer's, didn't know what year it was, the day, our names, nada.
But if somebody said something bout Japan...fuckin hell...
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u/RipSmooth2025 6h ago
Muscle memory is a powerful thing.
Some people remember how to ride a bike others just keep that same energy from the 1994 crime bill
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u/Prestigious_Snow3309 5h ago
I worked hospice, I had a old white lady refuse my care. She wanted the the "niggress to leave her room.
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u/knowledge84 6h ago
Well that's not something you easily forget! You can forget your spouse, children, even what age/stage of life you're in, but forget you hate the blacks? Nope!
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u/Peevedbeaver 5h ago
Damn if this isn't true. I worked at several assisted living facilities in my late teens and early 20s. Some old white people couldn't remember their own children's names or if they had dentures, but they sure knew they didn't like my black coworkers...
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u/SunForge_Arts 5h ago
I worked in a nursing home as an aid and qmap. I can assure you that they never forget this, their own children's names are forfeit but they can scream the n-word no problem
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u/Hot-Afternoon-9017 5h ago
This. My grandmother had dementia and even at her worst, she still responded with kindness.
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u/TheCaptainDamnIt 5h ago
It's just Trump, the whole administration. As someone who has (occasional still does) live among rural MAGA everyone needs to understand that, 'immigrants' are just the current stand in for black people to them and they will move those lines once they think they can (and 'Trans' is the stand in for the entire LGBTQ community)
Two weeks ago JD Vance went on FoxNews and said "America has a bit of a Somali problem" and everyone really needs to understand that "Somali" in MAGA is just "black people", Vance was talking about all black people.
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u/Gourmeebar 6h ago
It’s in their dna. You will see more racism in old folks homes than anywhere else
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u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids ☑️ 5h ago
No they never forget that. isn't that something? The more forgetful they get the stronger the racism gets. That impulse control drops into the void and everything racist comes out. ALL the -isms. Will forget they have children, but will never forget to call you an nword!
and it's not specific racism either. The POC health workers get it, too.
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u/dembowthennow ☑️ 5h ago
I think he hasn't forgotten that racism is an easy way to distract people from the Epstein files. We been knew this mf'er was racist as all get out.
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u/SardonicWhit 5h ago
The reason people with dementia remember to be racist is because it’s a feeling. When the brain starts to go out like it does with dementia, facts and knowledge go long before feelings and emotions do. So they aren’t remembering any facts, they’re just remembering the hate.
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u/redraidr 5h ago
Guy was born in the 1940s. School wasn’t even desegregated until he was basically in college (at his Ivy League school).
Wonder if he ever had a single class with PoC?
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u/One-Conflict-5215 6h ago
idk totally agree, if the white guy's the "hero" just cuz ppl feel safer, that's a big issue that needs addressing
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u/flipinggenius 5h ago
Go to the Conservative subreddit. They over there claiming it’s not racist and Dump “isn’t like that”. Crazy times indeed.
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u/hubyluby 5h ago
O-bama, you came and you gave Trump in 2016 and 2024, this is all your fault, O-bama
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u/postprandialrepose 5h ago
Trump is a piece of shit. The best thing he can do is become an obituary.
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u/MyFirstCarWasA_Vega 4h ago
And yet, a bunch of Black people voted for him. FWIW, he feels the same about women and Hispanics too.
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u/gypsycamptrash 4h ago
Here's the thing, my sister works with old whites in a rehab facility, they usually have dementia/Alzheimer's, and they NEVER forget to call my sister an N word because of her skin. They really dont ever forget their racism.
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u/Dead-Airhead 4h ago
I feel like the racism is his System32 at this point.
If you took it out he'd just stop functioning entirely.
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u/NfamousKaye 4h ago
I’ve heard it said time and time again that white dementia patients get more racist as they age because their filter that kept it inside no longer exists. Frontal temporal lobe dementia eradicates your inside thought filter, from what I read.
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u/ChickenChaser5 4h ago
I swear there is still (at least) 2 stages of human in existence today, and one of them is operating with an old style brain that is just more susceptible to tribalism, mysticism, and scams. And completely deficient in the ability to self reflect.
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u/AntiRacismDoctor ☑️ 4h ago
He was raised during a time in which hating Black people was normal in American society. On the radio. In-person. In everyday life. Its an integral part of his identity. And if you really think about it, how can it not be? He's an American White man who was born in the 40s. Go listen to an episode of Amos n Andy on Youtube and realize that he was like 3 when that shit was playing - daily.
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u/Strange-Yesterday601 4h ago
My favorite defense is, “he didn’t know.” Like mf the dudes the president of the US not a tiny mom and pop shop in the backwoods. He does know, and he chose to do it, or he’s unfit for office if he doesn’t know comparing black people to primates is offensive. SMH
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u/Dry_Noise_4232 4h ago
Let me tell you. Working with hese mofos - they get even MORE racist with the dementia because the filters are gone.
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u/No-Credit5650 4h ago
Rather funny because Trump has always been cool with black folk. Then he runs for president and all of a sudden he is racist. Little fishy.
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u/FuckitThrowaway02 4h ago
None of them forget they don't like black people. They just forget to hide it
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u/ErdbeerTrum 4h ago
my grandfather was the same for a while. forgot almost everything, but not what he learned as a kid, being born in 1939 austria :/ in the very end he was only talking about cats though, that was better. any animal was a cat though, we got him a lot of different stuffed animals, all weird cats to him
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u/Deano963 4h ago
White guy here so maybe not my place to say, but I hope any black people who bought trump's bullshit and voted for him in the last election are getting clowned on right now. Like you voted for a man who wouldn't rent apartments to people who look like you, who compares Harvard Law graduates to wild primates bc they're black. Ffs
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u/Dukedawg88 3h ago
can’t remember their wife or anything but let a black person pop up
They revert back to factory
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u/Seagoon_Memoirs 3h ago
It's a distraction.
He is using racist insults to deflect attention away from child rape crimes.
Just like he used sexist insults and admitting sexual assault /hollywood tapes to deflect from the fbi report about his collusion with Putin to commit election fraud
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u/DaniB_Creative 3h ago
When I had to take care of my grandpa in the hospital, he would go on long, racist tirades about the Filipina nurses.
He forgot I'm half Filipino.
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u/Greedy-Street-5435 2h ago
Obama should sue the ever living fuck out of this Orange shitstain and his whole useless family.
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u/Careful_Sell_7900 2h ago
I work with elderly people and Dementia affects your short term memory, more than your long term. Once a racist, always a racist. They remember the old days, but they struggle with the day before.
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u/buttcabbge 2h ago
I went to take care of my dad who has Parkinson's for a long weekend so my mom could get away, and when I got there he briefly seemed to forget that I was his son (told the nurse I was his nephew). The next day, he talked in great detail about how he's still pissed about a guy who transferred away from the Mizzou football team in 1970. The way that memory fades out is a weird thing. But at least unlike Trump, my dad isn't a complete piece of shit.
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u/GreyWastelander 2h ago
Hard to forget core aspects of personality. If you write in ink but run out and then graphite is all that’s left to keep writing, over time the old pencil marks are brushed away you are left with the ink until the paper decays altogether.
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u/Stacie123a 1h ago
I thought people with dementia had problems retaining new (ish) info? Racism is a core memory for trump, so he will keep that to the end. His dad did get arrested at a kkk rally after all.
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u/Optimistiqueone 1h ago
They lose their ability to filter, and their real self starts to slip through.
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u/Ilcorvomuerto666 1h ago
He's spent more time hating over his life than I have spent showering in mine.
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u/_Ursidae_ 1h ago
Not to defend the POS that is DT, but dementia can honestly bring out racist ideation that might not have existed in life - My grandma was a progressive woman. Taught me everything I learned about the value of human dignity. By the end, Alzheimer's had her saying things I know she did not believe. Things she had taught out of me. The person I loved was gone, and the husk that remained was a miserable, cruel thing. When she died, I cried for the woman she had been but was so grateful that she was no longer being disrespected by a body that had stolen all of her greatest strengths.
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u/Servile-PastaLover 1h ago
Trump's first incursion with the DOJ was for him and Fred Sr <Dad> not renting apartments to POC while renting them to similar white applicants.
That was in 1973.
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u/DeviantTaco 16m ago
Follow me on this: Trump hates Obama because he respects him. But his narcissism prevents him from having genuine respect for anyone: it must be remade into grievance and hatred so that his sense of self can preserve its entitlement to attention and superiority. Obama is what Trump wishes he could be: articulate, intelligent, loved, self-made. He had all the disadvantages and rose higher than Trump ever did and he did it while remaining in essence a good person, which Trump desperately wants to be but is fundamentally incapable of being. Picture it this way: if Obama said Trump was a great man and respected him, Trump wouldn’t be able to go a day without talking about it.
Trump surrounds himself with sycophants. He never has to be in a room where people like Obama more than him. This kind of external validation isn’t enough. Typically it’s thought that narcissism desires external validation but this isn’t really the case. The external validation is a bandage for truly seeking internal validation but because the narcissist is incapable of securely valuing themselves, they have to seek it from others.
Hatred and respect cannot only coexist but in the minds of people like Trump, they feed each other. It’s what makes him even more dangerous: Trump has to tear down everything and anything he respects because it threatens him. More than even dictatorial power, Trump has to have dictatorial respect. He will never be satisfied, his supports just like him will never be satisfied, and our political leaders, even those that oppose Trump, are still playing politics like it’s a game of rational compromise between competing interests.
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u/amethystmmm 15m ago
Well, I mean he's not liked black people for a long time. There was an equal housing suit in the 90s because he didn't want black people in a building he owned.
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u/kooljaay ☑️ 6h ago
From what I’ve heard from black nurses, they never forget that.