His racism was bad enough that his friends, and acquaintances, at the time, found it off-putting. Their expression of how uncomfortable it made them was one of the factors that eventually lead to him renouncing his bigotry.

He was racist to the point where friends, and acquaintances, of his, at the time, were put-off by it. Their expression of how uncomfortable it made them was one of the factors that went into him renouncing his bigotry.

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