Be it racial, gender, religious, sexual orientation, country of origin, classist, hair color/style, etc. Have you ever experienced any kind of direct bigotry? I think I said before that for some reason, I get mistaken for Jewish (I think it's the glasses). Back in high school, someone called me a "Kike." The kicker is that they knew full well that I wasn't Jewish, but decided to be funny anyway.
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Ever experience bigotry of some kind?
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No offense, but this is a question that only a heterosexual white male would ask. To ask someone who: is a person of color....a woman....an overt practitioner of a religious minority....has an accent indicating that they are from another country....or an out-of-the-closet gay/bisexual person if they have ever experienced bigotry is almost like asking a random person if they've ever eaten at McDonald's. Of course. More than once. Probably more than twice.
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Marc wrote:No offense, but this is a question that only a heterosexual white male would ask. To ask someone who: is a person of color....a woman....an overt practitioner of a religious minority....has an accent indicating that they are from another country....or an out-of-the-closet gay/bisexual person if they have ever experienced bigotry is almost like asking a random person if they've ever eaten at McDonald's. Of course. More than once. Probably more than twice.
. You know what's funny though? Coming up, I can honestly say I've never experienced any hardcore bigotry but luckily for me, I knew better and I knew it was just luck. Get older and become an adult and you'll see how the world really is.
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Not really, but there have been times when some idiot has made some wise remarks about Italians in my presence.
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Yep, Yep, and it most often comes from the sources you'd least expect it to. At the same time, not everything labeled as bigotry these days truly is.
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I sure have, but don't dwell on it.
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Its not worth dwelling on it, most times I take the remark from where it came from and usually that person has less intelligence than a flea.
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