Allesindesoep: Once acceptable, always acceptable. I don't think there are any targets in here that you can't find in the acceptable targets groups, with perhaps the exception of blacks.
soojinyeh
03:17:57 PM Aug 1st 2010
I disagree, I think it should change, and probably someday will.
Mercy
02:19:52 AM Dec 12th 2010
On the whole, I think this page should be deleted. Every example of a Once Acceptable Target listed is essentially Still An Acceptable Target.
There's an entry for "Self Hating Americans", for goodness sake! The entry negates itself...
Twentington
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07:27:47 PM Nov 26th 2010
Removed natter. Saved here in case it's Troper Tales material:
This troper's father was beaten by his teachers when he tried to write with his left hand back in The Thirties. No surprise that he dropped out of school in grade four.
On the same line, this troper's grandpa used to get his left hand tied to a belt and forced to do EVERYTHING with his correct hand, as being a southpaw was considered a bad way. Of course, he also got beaten up, but that was also for otherreasons.
That doesn't stop parents and teachers in China and Hong Kong tying up left-handed children's hands even today!
fifthfiend
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01:49:44 AM Jan 26th 2011
Many of these do seem less like "unacceptable targets" and more like "we'd like these to be unacceptable targets even though they still unfortunately are." Many of these groups at best have had the form of targeting changed or watered down but it's certainly still out there and generally given a pass by society.