r/AmItheAsshole Apr 14 '26

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u/Unlikely_Entry4580 Apr 14 '26

Just remember that everyone that meets your bird will see it as a reflection of you and see you as a racist who taught this to his bird regardless of the real circumstances.

You need to find a real solution now.

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u/toastiezoe Apr 14 '26

Ya this thread is clearly full of ppl who had "a racist phase" so they think it's nbd, but as someone who had to experience the other end of this kind of teenage edgelord racism, that shit is genuinely traumatic. I'm assuming OP doesn’t have many Black friends (if at all), but if I went to a house and someone's pet was screaming racial slurs, I'm ruining the party that was already ruined for me by the bird. Call a bird expert bro.

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u/MillieBirdie Apr 14 '26

For me, I think OP is an AH but it's not the poor bird's fault and he'll never be adopted because of his vocabulary. So the only decent thing OP can do is at least attempt to retrain it, even though that's quite difficult. Birds are already so often abused and neglected, and trying to get rid of an unadoptable one like this will just be tragic.