Has Anyone Ever Been Racist/Sexist/Discriminatory To You?
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As a white English male, yes, I actually get racist remarks against me a lot, usually because of my accent, or because my school loves to play "pick on the white guys" a lot since we are not the majority.
And they claim it's because we use to do it to them sixty years ago, so they're getting back at us. No one in my school is older than 19.
Logic failed?
And they claim it's because we use to do it to them sixty years ago, so they're getting back at us. No one in my school is older than 19.
Logic failed?
Woman pursuing a career in research science. I think that about covers it.
It's weird, though. It's not that people don't want me to succeed. It's not that people think, in general abstract terms, that women aren't smart or belong at home or can't be successful. It's just that there aren't that many, and I stand out like the guy who posted above about being the guy in the gender studies class, except it doesn't end when the class is over.
The best description I can give for it is that people want me to succeed so badly that they handle me with kid gloves until they get to know me, and people come to expect that I haven't been challenged because they know that they'd give extra opportunities to most women who cross their paths. It took a long time for me to get an RA position, and it involved a lot of begging and playing professors off of each other. I liked being a TA, but if I can't get research, I can't get a thesis, which means I can't get published, which means I can't get a degree, which means I can't get a "real" job, but people didn't want to give me an RA position because they seemed worried that my grades didn't mean the same thing as a guy with the same grades.
I have to say, I'm worried that this is going to happen all over again even after I graduate if I can't get my name on a big paper.
It's weird, though. It's not that people don't want me to succeed. It's not that people think, in general abstract terms, that women aren't smart or belong at home or can't be successful. It's just that there aren't that many, and I stand out like the guy who posted above about being the guy in the gender studies class, except it doesn't end when the class is over.
The best description I can give for it is that people want me to succeed so badly that they handle me with kid gloves until they get to know me, and people come to expect that I haven't been challenged because they know that they'd give extra opportunities to most women who cross their paths. It took a long time for me to get an RA position, and it involved a lot of begging and playing professors off of each other. I liked being a TA, but if I can't get research, I can't get a thesis, which means I can't get published, which means I can't get a degree, which means I can't get a "real" job, but people didn't want to give me an RA position because they seemed worried that my grades didn't mean the same thing as a guy with the same grades.
I have to say, I'm worried that this is going to happen all over again even after I graduate if I can't get my name on a big paper.
I pissed off some 12 year old English kid on Live once and he told me I was "a paki with dark skin because I keep getting tumeric over myself"... yet, I'm whiter than a snowman and I sound it.
But, I don't think they really counts as him "insulting me", just him being offensive in general.
But, I don't think they really counts as him "insulting me", just him being offensive in general.
What you've described isn't so much discrimination as it is ignorance and blatant stupidity. It also isn't racism because German isn't a race, but I don't think you were implying that. :B
I'm a white female, so I don't experience much discrimination [sub]except on the Internet[/sub]. If I have I simply haven't noticed it.
There is a form of passive discrimination going on at my school, though. We have a Native American club that's only open to Native Americans. While that's all fine and good, I wouldn't join it anyway, it just seems wrong at a public school. Even non-Christians are allowed into our Christ-based clubs.
I'm a white female, so I don't experience much discrimination [sub]except on the Internet[/sub]. If I have I simply haven't noticed it.
There is a form of passive discrimination going on at my school, though. We have a Native American club that's only open to Native Americans. While that's all fine and good, I wouldn't join it anyway, it just seems wrong at a public school. Even non-Christians are allowed into our Christ-based clubs.
I dunno where you are, but here in Ottawa it's pretty much the same thing.Cakes said:
I went to Florida two years ago and was asked seriously about living in igloos.
But nothing too bad.
However my peers tend to throw around "gay" and "Jew" like they're synonymous with "stupid" and "*****" respectively. I don't fall into either category and still find it infuriating.
The hypocrisy swelled to unbelievable proportions when I left my history class, which that day was focused solely on the Holocaust. The same people who said it was terrible were also the people who used "gay" and "Jew" in a derogatory manner five minutes later.
No, I've never been the victim of anything like that. I guess I'm very lucky, as no-one deserves to be discriminated against in that way, and it's sad that as a society these sorts of prejudices are still very much ingrained in our culture. I suppose culture is a hard thing to change, but it still doesn't excuse the fact that it's unnecessary and wrong to discriminate against anyone on the basis of race/gender/sexuality.
Sorry for the double post.But yes, this has happened for me. Being discriminated against because I'm white and supposedly have better oppurtunities in life etc...Imat said:
I know of black people who are PAID to go to school.. now thats racist.
That does need to die.
When I worked at Gamestop, I had to endure misogony on an almost constant basis. He talked down to me women (even customers) and acted like he was some detective from the 1940s going around and referring to us as "broads". And if I was even one second late he'd make a sexist comment about spending too much time on makeup or not driving fast enough (even though I rode my bike there).
I am so glad he drove that store into the ground.
I am so glad he drove that store into the ground.
A lot of People do not like atheists, I got beat up once just because i was atheist
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I'm a white male who gets discriminated against almost every day. Why? Because I'm supposedly the majority, so I clearly cannot be discriminated against. I've said this before and I'll say it again: When an employer hires a non-white person over a white male to appear non-discriminatory, even though the white male is more qualified for the job, that's discrimination. When a scholarship goes to the non-white person even though the white male has better grades and test scores and more financial need, that's discrimination. I'm not sure who decided that you could not be racist/sexist against white males, but that idea needs to die. It needs to die as soon as possible.[/quote] two words... reverse Racism(think i spelt that wrong)
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I'm a white male who gets discriminated against almost every day. Why? Because I'm supposedly the majority, so I clearly cannot be discriminated against. I've said this before and I'll say it again: When an employer hires a non-white person over a white male to appear non-discriminatory, even though the white male is more qualified for the job, that's discrimination. When a scholarship goes to the non-white person even though the white male has better grades and test scores and more financial need, that's discrimination. I'm not sure who decided that you could not be racist/sexist against white males, but that idea needs to die. It needs to die as soon as possible.[/quote] two words... reverse Racism(think i spelt that wrong)
i once got called a cracker by a guy in the US because I wouldnt buy his hip hop tape, I thought it was a little funny
Ugh... I'm in a area that rascism just isn't around. And when it does occur it's always blacks hating on whites... and then they call YOU the racist when you comfront them about it and if they go to a authoritive figure that figure will 100% of the time side with the them.
It doesn't happen often though, my school is rather mixed.
It doesn't happen often though, my school is rather mixed.
Not me personally (except the banter from the Welsh for being English and superior, so it goes both ways), however, I was born in London and my family was practically forced to move by the incoming black community, I was almost miscarried, my mother was nearly abducted and a number of times before being pregnant with me assaulted. So she knows exactly what it's like to be discriminated against.
Oh and there's the whole I'm male I should be strong enough to do this, that and whatever from the female employees where I work, but like the Welsh/English thing I know it's just banter.
Oh and there's the whole I'm male I should be strong enough to do this, that and whatever from the female employees where I work, but like the Welsh/English thing I know it's just banter.
