Senility is a serious and devastating disease and not the same as bigotry at

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12. That's called disinhibition by those of us who speak medicalese

but in many cases, it hadn't been their true feelings for many years. It's what they were taught when they were kids.

My dad was always a bit of a bigot, just too much of a gent to make an issue of it or treat people badly. My mother was a raving liberal who fully supported all the civil rights legislation that came along. My mother got demented and more bigoted as she went downhill. My dad never got into full blown dementia, just the early disinhibition.

It was sad. I call out younger people on bigotry. I never called my parents out because I knew where it was coming from.