Has this ever happened to you? Please read.

[Mackinator]

First of all, I partially agree with your view. I live in NI and I find that the two communties differences are few, and I work with people from the other side of my community and have made great friends with them.
Some things were achieved through the troubles though, such as Civil Rights and fairer allocation of housing and jobs if this person knows the history, I'm sure he can explain to you why he feels so strongly about the topic. I agree with you in that in the more recent years that there hasn't been anything of major achievement.

Don't just dismiss it because innocent people died - there were also people who died for thier beliefs maybe they were extreme, but they believed they were doing what was right.

Secondly, and more to the point, I have never been threatened for my beliefs, but I tend to keep them to myself unless you are really close to the person and they are of a decent intellectual competence and aren't slaves to old ways and old hatred.

 

[SmilingKitsune]

I've been attacked for standing up for homosexual rights and for wearing my hair long, fought back though.
Somethimes people are just plain horrible

 

[dwightsteel]

I have been threatened (not with death though), but have somehow managed to avoid/talk myself of it (without running), I think the best thing to do is not bring it up, even if you feel they are wrong (unless you think you can handle them should trouble occur).

Ha, that's funny. I'm a big guy. I'm 6'2" and 280lbs, and I'm not bragging when I say a lot of it is muscle (my first couple of years in high school, I was exceptionally self conscious, and spent a lot of time in the gym). The point is, that I live in a small town in southeast Alaska, and despite that fact that most of our sports programs aren't very good, they are still mildly worshiped. Anyway, I've never been much of a sports guy. I played some basketball and wrestled for a couple of years, all in middle school, but I found out very quickly that academic pursuits were just more up my alley. I did AcaDeca, DDF, and I was very into student government. To make a seemingly longer story then I intended, shorter, my senior year of high school, the football coach "discovered" me (I say that because in such a small town, it's pretty much a given that I've known this guy a good portion of my life). Anyway, he tried to talk me into joining football. He told me a guy my size was built to be a lineman. I told him that I was in no way interested in playing football. He then sent, on numerous occasions, the entire offensive line to strong arm me into playing. I was even threatened a few times. All for what? The coach had never even seen me play. For all he knew, I could have been the worst lineman in the history of football. I even ended up having to defend myself a few times from these guys (not such a big deal. Again, as a big guy, I've had to fight when some assclown decided he wanted to prove his manliness).
Sorry. Just dredged up some old memories, and I thought my fellow escapists might be interested. Or not.

 

[SoonerMatt]

I'm agnostic and going to school in Oklahoma this caused quite a stigma; I'd be told I was going to hell, how horrible a person I am (which is another rant entirely), etc. etc. But once when I was arguing about how religion shouldn't be brought into classrooms, specifically as a counter argument to evolution, one extremist grabbed me by the shirt and said I needed to "stop insulting [his] god" and that he would kill me if I didn't. He let me go and dared me to say it again, so I did, and then tackled him as he tried to get a swing in. He got up and 2 other people grabbed him and carried him off, but the entire time he was yelling "YOU'LL BURN IN HELL!" Never saw him again, so it's safe to assume he either failed/dropped out or was never a student to begin with.

 

[Cliff_m85]

This is a scenario that has happened to me over the last two days and I want to know if anyone has ever had a situation like this.

I have a view that the violence in Northern Ireland was nothing but a mudering slaughter fest that proved nothing. Now some people down here in the South find the North a touchy subject as they have not experianced the violence. One such person found my views annoying and has threatened to kill me when i go back to school I have managed to (hopefully disarm this situation) but I have a feeling this will come back to haunt me.

So I ask you the Escapist has this or something like this (i.e. Your personal beleaves) ever gotten you threatened or in trouble before.

And please dont derail this one as I really would like feed back.

I live in Arkansas and I'm a strict Atheist and Libertarian. South + Atheist don't mix it seems.

 

[Blitzkrieg8]

from now on wear a Kevlar vest and every so often randomly duck.

 

[Hazy]

Same scenarios occur here in America. The irony is that I live in a nation that prides itself on being independent, and letting others express their own opinions, but theres a catch.. You may die for it.

 

[Sparrow]

Yes.

Nothing a crowded room and pool cue can't solve though. Oh, that ***** bled.

Of course I'm kidding. A serious answer? No, though I don't usually express my opinions unless my opinions are opposed. And even then, it's usually with women, so a fight wouldn't really happen. Maybe a slap, but no real fisticuffs.

 

[Agent Larkin]

Sorry for Necroing this thread but it turns out I didn't resolve the situation after all and Im gonna get beatin up by dissident Republican wanna be's in September. YEA BIASED SCHOOL SYSTEM.

 

[Soxafloppin]

This is a scenario that has happened to me over the last two days and I want to know if anyone has ever had a situation like this.

I have a view that the violence in Northern Ireland was nothing but a mudering slaughter fest that proved nothing. Now some people down here in the South find the North a touchy subject as they have not experianced the violence. One such person found my views annoying and has threatened to kill me when i go back to school I have managed to (hopefully disarm this situation) but I have a feeling this will come back to haunt me.

So I ask you the Escapist has this or something like this (i.e. Your personal beleaves) ever gotten you threatened or in trouble before.

And please dont derail this one as I really would like feed back.

Im from belfast. I go to an integrated school and on ocasion there is tension between the two sides.

 

[Agent Larkin]

This is a scenario that has happened to me over the last two days and I want to know if anyone has ever had a situation like this.

I have a view that the violence in Northern Ireland was nothing but a mudering slaughter fest that proved nothing. Now some people down here in the South find the North a touchy subject as they have not experianced the violence. One such person found my views annoying and has threatened to kill me when i go back to school I have managed to (hopefully disarm this situation) but I have a feeling this will come back to haunt me.

So I ask you the Escapist has this or something like this (i.e. Your personal beleaves) ever gotten you threatened or in trouble before.

And please dont derail this one as I really would like feed back.

Im from belfast. I go to an integrated school and on ocasion there is tension between the two sides.

Has there ever been violence? And besides you live in Belfast this stuffs your history I'm in Dublin and while granted we have some history on it it is not enough that I should get threatened for saying Terrorism is wrong.

 

[Soxafloppin]

This is a scenario that has happened to me over the last two days and I want to know if anyone has ever had a situation like this.

I have a view that the violence in Northern Ireland was nothing but a mudering slaughter fest that proved nothing. Now some people down here in the South find the North a touchy subject as they have not experianced the violence. One such person found my views annoying and has threatened to kill me when i go back to school I have managed to (hopefully disarm this situation) but I have a feeling this will come back to haunt me.

So I ask you the Escapist has this or something like this (i.e. Your personal beleaves) ever gotten you threatened or in trouble before.

And please dont derail this one as I really would like feed back.

Im from belfast. I go to an integrated school and on ocasion there is tension between the two sides.

Has there ever been violence? And besides you live in Belfast this stuffs your history I'm in Dublin and while granted we have some history on it it is not enough that I should get threatened for saying Terrorism is wrong.

Theres been the ocasional fight nothing much. Your completely right in saying that terrorism is wrong. Belfast was very close to shedding the violent image until the disident republicans began murdering policemen and soilders. Why on Earth would anyone want the troubles to start again?

 

[Agent Larkin]

This is a scenario that has happened to me over the last two days and I want to know if anyone has ever had a situation like this.

I have a view that the violence in Northern Ireland was nothing but a mudering slaughter fest that proved nothing. Now some people down here in the South find the North a touchy subject as they have not experianced the violence. One such person found my views annoying and has threatened to kill me when i go back to school I have managed to (hopefully disarm this situation) but I have a feeling this will come back to haunt me.

So I ask you the Escapist has this or something like this (i.e. Your personal beleaves) ever gotten you threatened or in trouble before.

And please dont derail this one as I really would like feed back.

Im from belfast. I go to an integrated school and on ocasion there is tension between the two sides.

Has there ever been violence? And besides you live in Belfast this stuffs your history I'm in Dublin and while granted we have some history on it it is not enough that I should get threatened for saying Terrorism is wrong.

Theres been the ocasional fight nothing much. Your completely right in saying that terrorism is wrong. Belfast was very close to shedding the violent image until the disident republicans began murdering policemen and soilders. Why on Earth would anyone want the troubles to start again?

Because there is now a recession and Nationalism always grows during recession. Hitler came to power because the German economy got screwed after WW1 as when there is a recession you blame the people in charge and if the people in charge are from a different country then you try to be independent/rejoined with your old home. Down here it is just the biased school system as they have only just started introducing a balanced history education system about the North. My old history book for example just constantly yells about the Brits being evil and the IRA terrorists being heroic and noble so when you have a Generation that has been spoon-fed pure propaganda about another country this sort of shit will happen.

 

[sallene]

I would simply let friends and family know about the altercation and if you think he really is capable or knows people that a capable of carrying through with the threats then log a compaint with the local authorities.

Unfortunetely as with most political extremes the people involved making the threats arent exactly rational to begin with.

 

[ZeroMachine]

The only time anyone ever threatened me was because I was apparently a creep to this girl that I know... that I hadn't seen in over a year. It was quite hilarious, as at least five of my friends then threatened the guy that threatened me after the fact. Now he's not even allowed to look at me the wrong way XD

 

[Agent Larkin]

I would simply let friends and family know about the altercation and if you think he really is capable or knows people that a capable of carrying through with the threats then log a compaint with the local authorities.

Unfortunetely as with most political extremes the people involved making the threats arent exactly rational to begin with.

Well I already tried apoligiseing but that didn't work. Im not gonna go to the Gards(our police force) as this little shit and his skanger friends are all 16 or 17. What I am planning to do is just ignore him. I have plenty of practice walking away from fights so I think I'll just do that.

 

[Agent Larkin]

Though I have had a few heated arguments with my headmaster because I like to dye my hair awesome colours. I told him to chill out and listen to some Hendrix.

My Principal has actually done that. He was listening to VooDoo child in his office and it was his last day before he retired so he played it through the PA. It was awesome.

 

[lacktheknack]

I'm a atheist in a small town that no one has ever heard of, And I go to a school of evangelical Christians, they are all mindless and annoying. But When I finally told one of my friends that I was an Atheist he asked me what that was :| so I told him and he told everyone else and now I'm a outcast, people often tell me to change my believe or they will kill me. I just laugh at their Ignorant ways.


-Smile

It's Christians like that who give Christians like me a bad name, they need to be exterminated. Honestly. I'm not kidding.

Anywho, I haven't been threatened like that ever before. Good luck with that situation.