I worked with guys in the 90s who would have flat out racist conversations in the break room

I work with people today who have flat out racist conversations in the break room -- and I'm a fucking school bus driver in a fucking very liberal school district (Harris signs outnumbered trump signs by about 30:1 last year). They just use the word "native" instead of a worse n-word, although I had one coworker who used the worse n-word repeatedly. Another guy uses the g-word whenever somebody mentions that they like Chinese food. I enjoy watching his head melt when I say I'm going to get Korean or Ethiopian food. I almost got him to try Liberian food until he found out where Liberia is lol.

On the plus side, these are all older people in their 60s or 70s. The kids themselves are far more egalitarian. I also grew up in the '80s and although us kids were not really overtly racist, you still had kids segregating themselves racially as far as social groupings were concerned. Today I see lots of groups of mixed kids.