Originally posted by WolfChan
My brother just turned 14, and he has NEVER been hateful towards any person or group of people. Age has nothing to do with hate, unfortunately.
Age alone doesn't of course but how someone is raised and taught does. Someone who is 12 and has been taught to think and believe one way by parents hasn't always been out in the world enough to realize those opinions might be wrong. At 12 I held a lot of the same beliefs and views of my Mom, thankfully most of them were tolerant views, but some of the things I think and believe changed after I got older and I came to form my own opinions on them. Yet at 12 I would have vehemently stated that my views were my own and not just that of my Mom's if someone had told me that. I'm not about to claim that if by the time I was 12 I had been taught and told over and over to believe that say, Mexicans are lazy, that I wouldn't have believed it. (That was just an example pulled out of the air).