It doesn't happen often but there was this one little douche bag I knew in High School who constantly told me I was going to hell because I am an Atheist. No one else but this guy has given me shit for it and I am so glad I graduated and am never going to see him again.
Poll: Have you, personally, ever been discriminated against?
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White male in the Midwest United States. Not too much discrimination going on in my area, for most groups actually. At least in my high school, there isn't too much, at least outright, discrimination for any particular group. If there ever were any insults directed towards me it was probably in jest or being light hearted.
Actually there was one count of aggresion towards me in public and the only reason for it was that some of the blood from my kitten sacrifices to the gods got on a guy's jacket. People these days.
Actually there was one count of aggresion towards me in public and the only reason for it was that some of the blood from my kitten sacrifices to the gods got on a guy's jacket. People these days.
I live in around the Bible Belt, so occasionally people have been morons with regards to my total lack of religious convection/atheism/agnosticism/whatever the fuck you want to call it. It's nothing horrible (basically people just saying I'm a terrible person and that I'm going to hell, or saying they can't be friends with me, etc.), but it's the closest I've ever come to being "discriminated" against.
Let's see...
- I've been called a pussy for telling a guy that getting pot from a shady dealer off the street could be dangerous.
- I've been called a no life loser playing D&D, gaming, not playing hockey or being good at other team sports.
- Some ass called me a friendless nerd for reading at school.
- Many people called me gay for not liking Black Ops and for being a rock/metal fan.
Basicly, I've been discriminated for being a nerd.
- I've been called a pussy for telling a guy that getting pot from a shady dealer off the street could be dangerous.
- I've been called a no life loser playing D&D, gaming, not playing hockey or being good at other team sports.
- Some ass called me a friendless nerd for reading at school.
- Many people called me gay for not liking Black Ops and for being a rock/metal fan.
Basicly, I've been discriminated for being a nerd.
You take a lot of shit being a Goth anywhere, I mean I even got it from my mom for a long time and I kept getting it until recently about my tattoos and piercings mostly. Before that it was all about my clothing choices (Tripp pants and stuff like it).
I'm a white guy in a mostly 'white' society.
I'm also an atheist in a mostly atheistic society.
So discrimination is pretty rare.
But every time I've been discriminated against, it's been by religious people.
They ask me what I think about God, or how often I go to church, and when I say I'm an atheist, they act as if I've assaulted them.
I try to respect religious people, I really do, but they make it so goddamn hard sometimes.
I'm also an atheist in a mostly atheistic society.
So discrimination is pretty rare.
But every time I've been discriminated against, it's been by religious people.
They ask me what I think about God, or how often I go to church, and when I say I'm an atheist, they act as if I've assaulted them.
I try to respect religious people, I really do, but they make it so goddamn hard sometimes.
I have been discriminated for pretty much everything on the list at some point in my life save for politically and religiously, but I could see myself being discriminated against very easily in those last 2 ways in certain circles.
I used to be Mormon, so I took endless amounts of shit for that. I've also been discriminated against for not being a jock tool.
Not really. And honestly, reading most of these comments, neither have most of you. To be "discriminated against" doesn't mean to be teased a little because you're different. Well, okay, I guess if you're going by the dictionary definition, it does. But real discrimination (in my mind, at least), is malicious in nature. It means actually experiencing an injustice simply because someone with the power to make your life suck didn't like you because you were different.
By that definition, no, I haven't. But does that mean that I haven't been mocked a little for being raised Baptist? Or for having a generally more conservative outlook on things than some of my peers? Or for just being a geek? No. Does it mean that I have never heard crazy people rant about how all men are rapists, or how all white people deserve to be punished for the sins of their ancestors 300 years ago? No.
But I don't whine about it, because that's not real discrimination. I can just move on. If you are discriminated against, it means you cannot easily ignore it, because it interferes with your life.
By that definition, no, I haven't. But does that mean that I haven't been mocked a little for being raised Baptist? Or for having a generally more conservative outlook on things than some of my peers? Or for just being a geek? No. Does it mean that I have never heard crazy people rant about how all men are rapists, or how all white people deserve to be punished for the sins of their ancestors 300 years ago? No.
But I don't whine about it, because that's not real discrimination. I can just move on. If you are discriminated against, it means you cannot easily ignore it, because it interferes with your life.
I was, in the sense that, should my ex's mother have found out that I was an atheist, she would have forbidden my ex from seeing me.
Otherwise, I'm a white male in a pretty damn secular (though conservative) area. Most of my peers are Libertarian in nature like me, and even my enemies tend towards basic human liberties, though also shying away from religious fundamentalism.
I've gotten flack online for suggesting that affirmative action and the like is no longer needed, and that if a business owner wants to ban a certain group of people, even if it's banning atheists, they should be allowed to.
All-in-all, my own area (and state in general) is progressive, but not idiotic, right-supporting but non-wasteful, and protecting without being nanny-stateist. Helps that we're a state full of hunters, too. Michigan, for those that are wondering.
Otherwise, I'm a white male in a pretty damn secular (though conservative) area. Most of my peers are Libertarian in nature like me, and even my enemies tend towards basic human liberties, though also shying away from religious fundamentalism.
I've gotten flack online for suggesting that affirmative action and the like is no longer needed, and that if a business owner wants to ban a certain group of people, even if it's banning atheists, they should be allowed to.
All-in-all, my own area (and state in general) is progressive, but not idiotic, right-supporting but non-wasteful, and protecting without being nanny-stateist. Helps that we're a state full of hunters, too. Michigan, for those that are wondering.
I have been on several occasions. I have been for being gay, female, pagan and a Liberal or and goth
