Prejudice

[EPolleys]

I've mostly managed to avoid prejudice over the years by just not rally being social, people around here are practically raised to be dicks.
But some people would be ever so slightly educated enough to realize that my nose is very "French-looking".
It would take them a minute but eventually their single functioning brain cell would come together to process an insult for me, as well as comment on my complexion.

 

[Jamash]

Yes, I got called a Jewish suicide bomber because I had a beard and a backpack.

"You look like one of those sucide bombers, you know, one of them Jews!"

I've also been called a racist by some black people because I had my head shaved, (which was funny because one of them also have a shaved head, so they were judging me on my skin colour), then later that night a Russian woman accused me of stealing some tiles form off of her roof, just because I "looked like the sort".

I also suspect I get secretly prejudged quite a lot of my time because of my build, or as one of my friends put it, "It's because you look like a hench scary evil wrestler ************".

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

I think that's more hazardous stupidity than prejudice. But yes, because my girlfriend is Scottish I occasionally get mocked by them for my pronunciation.

I want you to think about that for a second: Scottish people, mocking an English person, for their pronunciation of English words. It's as stupid as it sounds.
EDIT:

Well, other than the occasional "English bastard", "Go home", and violence which used to be directed towards me, no. It's not always pleasant sounding English in Scotland.

It appears I've been partially ninja'd.

Yea disregard the years of anti-Scottish prejudice to the extent of trying to drive out the native language and it does seem a bit stupid.

Yes there is prejudice in Scotland towards the English but I would argue you get off relatively lightly compared to a Scot south of the border, at least we honour your currency.

Yes but that's the thing: I'm an 18 year old guy who's been born into the 21st century...I haven't done anything to any group of people. And the people I'm talking about here are around the age of 16. Politics comes nowhere into it.

 

[DSK-]

Have you ever been exposed to prejudice? Why?
For some reason, every time I'm in America people keep asking me if I'm a nazi. Just because I'm German.

Yeah, I got called a nazi because I'm half German pretty much the entirety of my life. Early on it was hurtful, now I see it as joke. No matter how many times I told my college/uni mate's that I was born in England, they thought I was German. It's a shame I'm not.

 

[SuccessAndBiscuts]

I think that's more hazardous stupidity than prejudice. But yes, because my girlfriend is Scottish I occasionally get mocked by them for my pronunciation.

I want you to think about that for a second: Scottish people, mocking an English person, for their pronunciation of English words. It's as stupid as it sounds.
EDIT:

Well, other than the occasional "English bastard", "Go home", and violence which used to be directed towards me, no. It's not always pleasant sounding English in Scotland.

It appears I've been partially ninja'd.

Yea disregard the years of anti-Scottish prejudice to the extent of trying to drive out the native language and it does seem a bit stupid.

Yes there is prejudice in Scotland towards the English but I would argue you get off relatively lightly compared to a Scot south of the border, at least we honour your currency.

In fairness to the currency thing, there are a few different types of currency used in Scotland. I can pull notes out my wallet and have a few different designs. So the confusion could be understood. But in Scotland, there is a genuine hatred of the English among some. My family have experienced it. I was personally bullied for many years growing up because of an English accent, my father has been threatened with violence, and my mother constantly hears comments about coming up here and stealing jobs. I know it's a minority, but it's still pretty unpleasant sometimes.

In regard to currency I work in a supermarket in Scotland (currently anyway) and we are expected to accept Scottish, English and northern Irish bank notes, there are a handful of checks we perform at the till and that's it. Confusion is no excuse for going against something that exists in the acts of union.

I am sorry about the unpleasantness but at least you are aware its a minority, just like the abuse I get when I am in England is the work of a minority.

 

[SuccessAndBiscuts]

I think that's more hazardous stupidity than prejudice. But yes, because my girlfriend is Scottish I occasionally get mocked by them for my pronunciation.

I want you to think about that for a second: Scottish people, mocking an English person, for their pronunciation of English words. It's as stupid as it sounds.
EDIT:

Well, other than the occasional "English bastard", "Go home", and violence which used to be directed towards me, no. It's not always pleasant sounding English in Scotland.

It appears I've been partially ninja'd.

Yea disregard the years of anti-Scottish prejudice to the extent of trying to drive out the native language and it does seem a bit stupid.

Yes there is prejudice in Scotland towards the English but I would argue you get off relatively lightly compared to a Scot south of the border, at least we honour your currency.

Yes but that's the thing: I'm an 18 year old guy who's been born into the 21st century...I haven't done anything to any group of people. And the people I'm talking about here are around the age of 16. Politics comes nowhere into it.

And I'm a 20 year old guy, I haven't done anything to any group of people. But I get abuse south of the border because of my accent. Two sides, same coin.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Apparently I'm gay because I don't like football. I live in Texas, and American Football is a huge deal here.

I'm in Texas and American Football sucks.

Real football is where its at. That and rugby.

OT:

A couple of conservatives at my high school called me gay because I participated in a pro-LGBT event (Day of Silence), and a few people dislike me because I am a Socialist agnostic, but that is a very small number of people.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

People sometimes ask me if I'm rich, just because I'm a lord. How very prejudiced eh?

Also, there's the whole "being a Jew" thing. Yeah, I don't help much by being mean with money.

 

[Frankydee]

Eh, about all I got was in eighth grade when the second chair french horn girl would give me shit for inexplicable reasons then would cry racism (she was black, I'm a mutt :\ ) if I tried making a comeback.

 

[thenoblitt]

im american and white, so black comedians are always like white people are uptight and cant have fun and they talk nerdy and cracker this and honkey that, and every other country besides canada is like your american your fat and not intelligent get out of our country so yeah thats pretty prejudice to a 16 year old kid that never hurt nobody

 

[The Grim Ace]

Many people at my college style themselves as some kind of atheist, so whenever someone finally notices I wear a cross around my neck I always get the third degree about how I'm some ass-backward bigot who wants to force them to convert to my religion. I'd see here they were coming from, if I mentioned my religion every damn second and if I wasn't as libertarian as I am. I'm instead told how bigoted I am while they discuss ways to remove religion from society for no reason other than their dislike of it. Bigotry is the greatest hypocrisy.

 

[Dags90]

Probably the worst was when I told this girl a had a class with that I was gay. Upon hearing this she immediately started treating me like some reality TV stereotype.

 

[thenoblitt]

Apparently I'm gay because I don't like football. I live in Texas, and American Football is a huge deal here.

I'm in Texas and American Football sucks.

Real football is where its at. That and rugby.

OT:

A couple of conservatives at my high school called me gay because I participated in a pro-LGBT event (Day of Silence), and a few people dislike me because I am a Socialist agnostic, but that is a very small number of people.

sorry for being off-topic but many people participated in this event at my high school and well its very counter productive, the people who participate get called fag and cant get in a word or explain how there is nothing wrong with being gay, people just see it as a bunch of weird kids putting tape over their mouth, if anything you need to be more vocal not quieter, well thats just how i saw it, and yah rugby is the shit

 

[oppp7]

Ya, I've been bullied just because I'm skinny.

 

[Cheesus333]

I've been called a Nazi before, due to blond hair, blue eyes, and short hair. Last guy who said it received a roundhouse kick to the crotch.

Why was he facing away from you? Did he really dislike you so much that he didn't even want to look at you? :S

I don't get a lot of prejudice, but this dickhead I have the misfortune of knowing seems to think I'm a woman beater because I retaliate to violence form anyone who gives it. I don't give a shit how you dress it up: an attack is an attack, and an assailant is an assailant. I'd be a shiit black belt if I laid down and took a beating just cause the one administering it didn't have a dick.

/rant. Sorry, it just really pisses me off that society expects me to take shit and give nothing back based on long dead codes of chivalry. If we're doing the 'hur hur don't hit a girl cause then you're gay' thing, then feminism has really failed us.

 

[Airsoftslayer93]

Plenty of people take the piss out of me for having a relativly posh accent, i hate people in the north of england, very intolerant of almost everyone else

 

[lightningmagurn]

A LOT of kids in my school hate gays for no reason other than gits and shiggles. I get bashed cuz people think I'm gay. It's mostly just jocks and shit but it gets really annoying and the worst is I'm not gay or bi I'm just not a bigot.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Apparently I'm gay because I don't like football. I live in Texas, and American Football is a huge deal here.

I'm in Texas and American Football sucks.

Real football is where its at. That and rugby.

OT:

A couple of conservatives at my high school called me gay because I participated in a pro-LGBT event (Day of Silence), and a few people dislike me because I am a Socialist agnostic, but that is a very small number of people.

sorry for being off-topic but many people participated in this event at my high school and well its very counter productive, the people who participate get called fag and cant get in a word or explain how there is nothing wrong with being gay, people just see it as a bunch of weird kids putting tape over their mouth, if anything you need to be more vocal not quieter, well thats just how i saw it, and yah rugby is the shit

I had a notepad on which I would right out my thought out responses to them. It actually improved my ability to make my point because, instead of being allowed to respond with anger to ignorance and not making an effective argument, I actually had enough time to calmly write a response.

 

[Sebenko]

Surprisingly, not really. Then again, the typical response at school when I came out was "Wait, what?"

It probably helps that I'm usually the first to start shouting when someone talks about parades or starts being limp wristed. I am... not a fan of parades. Or anything in public, really.

 

[ultimateownage]

I'm mildly obese, so people automatically assume I never get off my lazy arse and that I sit at home being drip fed with lard or something. It's just because I have a slow metabolism, I do a fair amount of exorcise and eat pretty healthily.

I've been called a Nazi before, due to blond hair, blue eyes, and short hair. Last guy who said it received a roundhouse kick to the crotch.

Wow, they're really stupid, seeing has the idea of the Aryan race had been around for hundreds and hundreds of years before the Nazi's. I've been called Hitler's best friend before 'cause of that.