Be honest - is there a specific group in which you are prejudiced?

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I am prejudiced against uneducated southerners. Basically, I assume they all hate me (jewish), and anyone different from them.

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Anonymous wrote:liberals

conservatives, tea partiers, and ultraconservatives.

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Anonymous wrote:For the PPs who don't like African Americans but are "neutral" towards Africans, black Latinos, etc.--what about someone like me? West Indian parents, but born here, and more or les identify as AA. Oh, and I'm only half-black (other half another minority race). Perhaps you're only a tad prejudiced against people like me who are African American-ish?

If you have West a indian parents, how can you be half black and the other half another minority race? We're you adopted by your West indian parents?

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Anonymous wrote:Anti-vaxxers. They reject science and endanger everyone, particularly babies, toddlers, the elderly, and the immunosuppressed.

This. Anyone who doesn't vax should be put up for public shaming by the rest of us. I'm not prejudiced against them. They are more like...subspecies. I assume their brains have not caught up to ours.

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Anonymous wrote:Indian immigrants and college students. They're invariably rich, spoiled and arrogant.

My Indian immigrant parents came here with literally $8 and a suitcase and knew no one.

You probably would have labeled me as rich and spoiled in college since they paid for my entire tuition.

+ 1.
I know lots of Indian people. Warm, friendly. If you become part of their inner circle, you are family for life. Some have an intense focus on material possessions, but so do tons of other races. I find it more plausible when you come from a country with great poverty. Education is paramount so that your family doesn't become destitute. It becomes the fuel to succeed.

Huh. I'll keep that in mind. Most of the Indians that I have met were students at Washington University in St. Louis. They were all rich kids. On the other hand, most of the kids I met at WUSTL were rich kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I kind of really dislike African Americans. I am an immigrant and they have been very unkind to me. I especially dislike the men, who seem to be culturally predisposed to promiscuity, street harassment, abandoning their children. Even the more educated ones have a host of antisocial behaviors. I just don't get it.

Wow, as a law abiding, straight laced, non substance using, kind. Empathetic, bright, highly educated, well married, grounded, mother, loyal, proper African American woman--this belief is such a stereotype from my view. My black Eagle Scout, responsible, educated, kind husband is nothing like you describe.

I really try to not generalize to entire populations of people. This kind of thinking makes me hesitant (stressed) to reach out to you when my kid is at the pool for swim team and other such environments. I had a friend once who stayed out loud to me "I've always wanted to have a black friend." Can you even imagine how this might feel?

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Anonymous wrote:For the PPs who don't like African Americans but are "neutral" towards Africans, black Latinos, etc.--what about someone like me? West Indian parents, but born here, and more or les identify as AA. Oh, and I'm only half-black (other half another minority race). Perhaps you're only a tad prejudiced against people like me who are African American-ish?

If you have West a indian parents, how can you be half black and the other half another minority race? We're you adopted by your West indian parents?

You sound ignorant pp. You must be unaware that West Indian countries had African slaves? There are many West Indians of African descent. Google it if you can't believe this.

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Anonymous wrote:For the PPs who don't like African Americans but are "neutral" towards Africans, black Latinos, etc.--what about someone like me? West Indian parents, but born here, and more or les identify as AA. Oh, and I'm only half-black (other half another minority race). Perhaps you're only a tad prejudiced against people like me who are African American-ish?

If you have West a indian parents, how can you be half black and the other half another minority race? We're you adopted by your West indian parents?

Probably Indian or other South Asian. They were brought to the Caribbean as indentured servants after slavery was abolished. Many Trinidadians, for example, are of South Asian and African descent.

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Men who wear dress shoes with jeans.

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People who belong to hate groups. Other than that, I try not to judge people based on their color, religion, style, socioeconomic background, weight, etc. and can't stand when other people do.

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Anonymous wrote:I kind of really dislike African Americans. I am an immigrant and they have been very unkind to me. I especially dislike the men, who seem to be culturally predisposed to promiscuity, street harassment, abandoning their children. Even the more educated ones have a host of antisocial behaviors. I just don't get it.

Wow, as a law abiding, straight laced, non substance using, kind. Empathetic, bright, highly educated, well married, grounded, mother, loyal, proper African American woman--this belief is such a stereotype from my view. My black Eagle Scout, responsible, educated, kind husband is nothing like you describe.

I really try to not generalize to entire populations of people. This kind of thinking makes me hesitant (stressed) to reach out to you when my kid is at the pool for swim team and other such environments. I had a friend once who stayed out loud to me "I've always wanted to have a black friend." Can you even imagine how this might feel?

It seems you are clearly generalizing.

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Truth be told prejudice isn't really about "them" it's about us. It's about our fears and our uncertainties and our need to make sense of and feel safe in the crazy world in which we live. For all intents and purposes prejudices are natural. People who aren't comfortable with ambiguity (most people) have a strong need to make quick and firm judgments and decisions in order to reduce ambiguity and are prone to make generalizations about others which become prejudices when they automatically assign "good" or "bad" labels to them. Therein lies the problem - not the quick judgements themselves but the stubborn perpetual labels we assign that prevent objectivity in our future judgements. It doesn't have to work that way though. We can either use our prejudice to properly inform us of the situations we find ourselves in, or use it to create conclusions that promote harm inwardly and/or outwardly.

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Anonymous wrote:Truth be told prejudice isn't really about "them" it's about us. It's about our fears and our uncertainties and our need to make sense of and feel safe in the crazy world in which we live. For all intents and purposes prejudices are natural. People who aren't comfortable with ambiguity (most people) have a strong need to make quick and firm judgments and decisions in order to reduce ambiguity and are prone to make generalizations about others which become prejudices when they automatically assign "good" or "bad" labels to them. Therein lies the problem - not the quick judgements themselves but the stubborn perpetual labels we assign that prevent objectivity in our future judgements. It doesn't have to work that way though. We can either use our prejudice to properly inform us of the situations we find ourselves in, or use it to create conclusions that promote harm inwardly and/or outwardly.

Well, when I say that Chinese people in Brooklyn stink to high heaven, it is about me, of course. I hate it But it has little to do with my "uncertainties and need to make sense of and feel safe in the crazy world." It's more like... couldn't you, people, live China where it belongs? I mean, in China. Sheesh. I am an immigrant, and I am not too kind to the American immigration policy that concentrates on importing the destitute from all over the world. But the stink... I think it's food. Chinese food that's very much unlike what Americans call Chinese food.

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Anonymous wrote:Truth be told prejudice isn't really about "them" it's about us. It's about our fears and our uncertainties and our need to make sense of and feel safe in the crazy world in which we live. For all intents and purposes prejudices are natural. People who aren't comfortable with ambiguity (most people) have a strong need to make quick and firm judgments and decisions in order to reduce ambiguity and are prone to make generalizations about others which become prejudices when they automatically assign "good" or "bad" labels to them. Therein lies the problem - not the quick judgements themselves but the stubborn perpetual labels we assign that prevent objectivity in our future judgements. It doesn't have to work that way though. We can either use our prejudice to properly inform us of the situations we find ourselves in, or use it to create conclusions that promote harm inwardly and/or outwardly.

Yes, we all have prejudices. Good people work hard to take every individual at face value, though, instead of letting prejudices impact our thoughts/actions toward them.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an atheist who grew up in Utah. Mormons are the last religious people I'd classify as preachy or "holier than thou." They believe in some truly ridiculous, ass-backward shit, but they are for the most part lovely people and truly less judgy than most other religious people I know.

But don't they believe that anyone of a different religion will burn in hell? That's pretty judgy to me.