Poll: Have you, personally, ever been discriminated against?
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For my religion (mormon) and by atheists, not other religious people. There tend to be a lot of hateful atheists out there =\
Also, occasionally for being a girl playing games, which is damn annoying, gender should have no affect on how people are treated in games :<
Also, occasionally for being a girl playing games, which is damn annoying, gender should have no affect on how people are treated in games :<
I'm fat, socially inept, play video games, watch anime, want to learn Japanese, love dragons almost religiously, and have a bad habit of speaking my mind whilst not thinking.
I have been ridiculed so much in my lifetime, I expect it as part of conversation with most people.
I have been ridiculed so much in my lifetime, I expect it as part of conversation with most people.
Well, lessee, aside from a couple of my hobbies... there's being a foreigner in Japan. That's less of an issue than it used to be, but a number of my friends aren't actually allowed to see me because their distrust foreigners and think I'm a bad influence/dangerous or something to that effect. Admittedly, these parents are all crazy in a couple other ways too.
Oh, and being Jewish. Mostly less bad than it used to be, but there's the issue of being called a blind brainwashed fanatic by the militant atheist - technically antitheist, I think? - crowd (nothing against atheists in the slightest, and I snark at this stuff fairly often myself, but some do get a bit too angry about it) and a whole lot of people thinking I'm part of some shadowy world-running conspiracy, run around blowing things up, or both.
Mind you, none of this is a huge problem.
Oh, and being Jewish. Mostly less bad than it used to be, but there's the issue of being called a blind brainwashed fanatic by the militant atheist - technically antitheist, I think? - crowd (nothing against atheists in the slightest, and I snark at this stuff fairly often myself, but some do get a bit too angry about it) and a whole lot of people thinking I'm part of some shadowy world-running conspiracy, run around blowing things up, or both.
Mind you, none of this is a huge problem.
I've had "****** *****!" yelled at me by strangers quite often, or variants involving the word ******. I've been called a slave, an ape and many others. But that isn't discrimination, it's more just disgusting insults.
Have I ever been discriminated against within a system? No. My discrimination experiences have been all social.
Have I ever been discriminated against within a system? No. My discrimination experiences have been all social.
As a white Christian male, yes quite a bit, I've lost a lot of friends solely based on those things. If I was gay I would have been discriminated for that, but never having had sex with guys, I don't think being made fun of for being gay counts. Just teenaged bullshit I guess, because it never happens on the level it used to any more.
Sorry to hear that, I don't agree with religion but it takes a real jerk to shun a friend because of it.AdeptaSororitas said:
Where acceptance can't be had? Tolerate.
Where toleration can't be had? Silence.
It really doesn't make it harder to get along with people, being psychotic makes it hard to get along with people, unfortunately large groups have very vocal minorities that people take far to seriously.
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I've been judged for having long hair, being socially awkward, personally identifying with both genders, being a gamer, being an anime fan (Loving Pokemon as much as it deserved is part of that!), maybe worst of all for being depressed (Depressed people really need more hate guys /sarcasm).
Had a man threaten to rip off my dick because he thought I was staring at his daughter's ass, because I was a teenage boy, obviously I must have been planning to rape her or something.
At school I was constantly bullied and beaten up for having red hair and being Scottish in an English school. The teachers just ignored it. I put down racial discrimination seeing as it fit the best out of the ones in the poll.
My stupid Jesuit University essentially put me on parole in lieu of suspension/expulsion just because they caught me with some weed ONCE! I live in Southern California where weed is practically legal btw, and the college I go to is located there and has far stricter punishments for weed "offenses" than the actual police/law ever would inflict. I know that weed is a very controversial issue, although i'm not sure why considering how alcohol is totally legal already and WAY worse for you, but i still think it's legitimately unfair to discriminate against someone for any lifestyle choice they make as long as the choices aren't directly effecting others without their consent, which my weed habit was and still isn't. I like to smoke weed every once in a while either on my own or with my fellow weed smoking friends and i see no reason why i shouldn't be allowed to do so in privacy without some dumbshit authority figure busting in and ruining my good time when i haven't done anything to harm anyone, and then cause me to get a ridiculous plethora of punishments that completely don't fit the crime.
1) only if they catch you, which doesn't happen often.yuval152 said:
2) Yes, if they think you are underage
3) No
4) 16, 21, and 16.
5) Depends on the cop.
6) That's a good question. In some states (like California) you can. In some you cannot. However, if the guy tries to hurt or kill you, you can kill him in self defense.
yeah, i caught a ton of crap for being a gamer at my old catholic school. i also got the receiving end of every single damn black joke/stereotype i ever heard of, just because my father is black. not me, my father.
also a number of kids were reluctant to interact with me because of a minor mental condition (well, minor now thanks to therapy and meds), which didn't help it at all. the cause was like depression (lack of serotonin), but instead of lack of interest in shit, i way overreacted to every frigging thing. combined with ocd, small things pissed me off to violence, insults hurt ALOT (especially the obesity ones. solved that. god bless puberty.), and every minor mess up made me feel like an absolute failure, leading to hysterical tears and yelling. their reluctance is understandable of course, but some 3/4 of the kids began getting me to that point on purpose for shits and giggles starting in the first or second grade. 'twas not fun.
they also picked on me for my lack of athletic talent, and preference to geekier activities (mostly videogames and various related things)
i also got picked on for my music tastes (honestly, only one kid didn't insult me for liking dragonforce, and most insulted me for liking nightwish, which most of them hadn't heard of even)
so yeah, lifestyle got me picked on alot. but to be fair, if i kept on my loner, stereotype gamer path, i would be much worse off today. so some insults i did take to heart and worked to change those enough so they weren't problems anymore.
so no discrimination within a system. much discrimination in social groups
also a number of kids were reluctant to interact with me because of a minor mental condition (well, minor now thanks to therapy and meds), which didn't help it at all. the cause was like depression (lack of serotonin), but instead of lack of interest in shit, i way overreacted to every frigging thing. combined with ocd, small things pissed me off to violence, insults hurt ALOT (especially the obesity ones. solved that. god bless puberty.), and every minor mess up made me feel like an absolute failure, leading to hysterical tears and yelling. their reluctance is understandable of course, but some 3/4 of the kids began getting me to that point on purpose for shits and giggles starting in the first or second grade. 'twas not fun.
they also picked on me for my lack of athletic talent, and preference to geekier activities (mostly videogames and various related things)
i also got picked on for my music tastes (honestly, only one kid didn't insult me for liking dragonforce, and most insulted me for liking nightwish, which most of them hadn't heard of even)
so yeah, lifestyle got me picked on alot. but to be fair, if i kept on my loner, stereotype gamer path, i would be much worse off today. so some insults i did take to heart and worked to change those enough so they weren't problems anymore.
so no discrimination within a system. much discrimination in social groups
To the best of my knowledge, I haven't been discriminated against. I'm a half-chinese, half-english atheist, but almost no one can actually tell I'm half Chinese, so no one has been racist to me (plenty of people have been racist to my brother on the other hand). Also, Australia is quite tolerant of atheists. Heck, our Prime Minister is an atheist.
So I'm lucky that I haven't been discriminated against. Well, at least not in any way that I can tell, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I've never been discriminated against. I don't smoke, I'm not some sort of radical far right or far left loony and I have a good education.
I have been insanely lucky during the course of my life.
So I'm lucky that I haven't been discriminated against. Well, at least not in any way that I can tell, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I've never been discriminated against. I don't smoke, I'm not some sort of radical far right or far left loony and I have a good education.
I have been insanely lucky during the course of my life.
I'm a Latter-day Saint, or more commonly referred to as a Mormon. I've been persecuted and discriminated against since the 1800s.
does a random guy I meet at Barnes and Nobel who called me and my religion (Christian) evil count?