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I was a "ironically" racist as a young teen, it took me till my early adulthood to realise that being ironically racist is just being racist, and the edgy "humour" that is made at others expense isn't funny or clever, and is incompatible with the kind, empathetic person I wanted to be.
Cringing at my teen self pushes me further into deprogramming myself from that shit, but I'm encouraged by the adage "if you don't look at yourself from a decade ago and cringe, you wasted that decade".