Poll: Have you, personally, ever been discriminated against?
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Yep, because of gender. Ironically, not by men but by women. I was the only female in an office moving/installation crew and I got along great with the guys. As long as I was capable and ready to do the same work they did, they didn't care. But the offices we'd go to were full of female office workers and secretaries who were used to ogling the young guys as eye candy whenever they came in. They were disappointed when I showed up instead, and complained. (Plus if I could do it, their bosses started to wonder why they weren't moving their own desks and boxes.) Of course they made up some bullshit about not doing the job right, but when my boss pushed for specifics he discovered the truth. I've never been more disappointed in my own gender.
Words have no more weight against me than I allow them to. I simply don't allow something that would bother me to bother me. Quite simple, really.JacobShaftoe said:
Actions yes, those you've the right to be angry about. But words? Walk it off.
All of the above. I am ethnically Hebrew so I never hear the end of Jew this and Jew that. I am a very vocal and open supporter of the Socialist Party USA, and the super right wings pair me up with totalitarians. In the first years of High School I had to request a locker in the corner of the locker room because of the Homophobic slurs and such. Being an open furry to the entire world, need I explain. And you hear a lot of people talking about feeling bad for the Jews but it seems like everywhere I go there is a swastika waiting for me.
Now that I think of it... an extremely homophobic community in the heart of California? Something in my head doesn't click.
Now that I think of it... an extremely homophobic community in the heart of California? Something in my head doesn't click.
Age, I'm young, therefore I know nothing about the world.
Yes, I know I'm inexperienced, but my opinion gets shot down all the time because I'm young.
Yes, I know I'm inexperienced, but my opinion gets shot down all the time because I'm young.
not quite. not directly anyways. but i'm a Christian, so it'll most certainly happen at some point...and im countin' down the days until i can tell someone to stop wasting my time.
I find it an honor to have Irish in my blood! Screw biased people and their useless, time-wasting opinions!Spot1990 said:
Unless you count being tormented in school for just being a nice, naive kid...then no.
But really, I hate someone who discriminates based on someone's appearance, or their beliefs, or etc, etc, etc.
If there is to be any hatred or discrimination, it must be done on a person by person basis, based on that person and their own personal ethic/attitude. IE, hate the person for being a bully/asshole and NOT because they're *insert race religion, or whatever here*.
But really, I hate someone who discriminates based on someone's appearance, or their beliefs, or etc, etc, etc.
If there is to be any hatred or discrimination, it must be done on a person by person basis, based on that person and their own personal ethic/attitude. IE, hate the person for being a bully/asshole and NOT because they're *insert race religion, or whatever here*.
im a vegetarian and while i have not once tried to force my diet or views on others, people constantly give me shit about it.
im an anarchist and people give me shit for that
im a male feminist (kinda goes hand in hand with anarchy) and due to a misunderstanding of feminism, people always attack me over that and often question my sexuality because of it (which makes no sense)
im an anarchist and people give me shit for that
im a male feminist (kinda goes hand in hand with anarchy) and due to a misunderstanding of feminism, people always attack me over that and often question my sexuality because of it (which makes no sense)
White Aussie male - lived in UK and Japan for long times though, so accent is very quirky (think of a mix between Aussie/NZ/Irish/Cockney). People dig my accent though. I tell them it's an 'Atlantean' accent.
Lived in Japan a long time. Nothing serious there - foreigners there usually overreact to any time they hear 'gaijin!', assigning all kinds of racist undertones that generally aren't there.
But in Japan there is definitely a kind of 'subtle' discrimination - myself and one of my Japanese friends were in a bar discussing 'wabisabi', an interesting Japanese term, trying to pin down a simple explanation (I'm sure someone will jump in with whatever shit it says on wikipedia, I don't want to hear it). This old guy in the bar started grumbling in very aggressive Osaka dialect that 'you can never understand this term because you are not Japanese'. It was an interesting opinion - that I couldn't comprehend an emotion because I wasn't of a particular race.
One of my friends put the discrimination in Japan very well - not sure if he came up with it but it's a good explanation:
People stop asking "How long have you been here?", and start asking "When will you go home?".
They don't mean anything particularly bad about it, but the underlying feeling is Japan is for the Japanese, and parts of our language and culture you will never understand. My wife is Japanese-born Korean, and she gets absolutely terrible discrimination against her in her home country - so much so that she uses several aliases to avoid it. She even has bank accounts in Japanese names so employers don't know she's not pure-blood Japanese.
But Japan is still a fantastic place, and I've experienced far more racism in Australia (as a white man!).
Lived in Japan a long time. Nothing serious there - foreigners there usually overreact to any time they hear 'gaijin!', assigning all kinds of racist undertones that generally aren't there.
But in Japan there is definitely a kind of 'subtle' discrimination - myself and one of my Japanese friends were in a bar discussing 'wabisabi', an interesting Japanese term, trying to pin down a simple explanation (I'm sure someone will jump in with whatever shit it says on wikipedia, I don't want to hear it). This old guy in the bar started grumbling in very aggressive Osaka dialect that 'you can never understand this term because you are not Japanese'. It was an interesting opinion - that I couldn't comprehend an emotion because I wasn't of a particular race.
One of my friends put the discrimination in Japan very well - not sure if he came up with it but it's a good explanation:
People stop asking "How long have you been here?", and start asking "When will you go home?".
They don't mean anything particularly bad about it, but the underlying feeling is Japan is for the Japanese, and parts of our language and culture you will never understand. My wife is Japanese-born Korean, and she gets absolutely terrible discrimination against her in her home country - so much so that she uses several aliases to avoid it. She even has bank accounts in Japanese names so employers don't know she's not pure-blood Japanese.
But Japan is still a fantastic place, and I've experienced far more racism in Australia (as a white man!).
eh, people give me shit about my political beliefs and religion, and I've heard an occasional race joke about me being Chinese, but I've never been stomped on or w/e
I agree somewhat. I bet it gets pretty tiresome if you get talked down on all the time. You likely have the privilege of generally not getting discriminated against, as do I, but I don't blame some people for letting the words get to them.CM156 said: