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These things about Scared Straight! are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.

• Values Dissonance: While the Lifers are doing what they can to prevent the kids from going to jail, their use of racial and sexual slurs which back then was considered the norm, as well as being used to further emphasize what life in prison will be like; would not fly on national TV today. Ali, the most well known of the Lifers referred to one of the kids as a "Faggot" in part of his turn to scare them straight. That being said, while usage of the words is wrong, it's no different than what Prison would be like today. Since once in prison, no one cares how offended you are at their words.

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