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

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Anonymous wrote:Manhattanites (often but not always Jewish) who assume that they are smarter and more intellectual than everyone else and that nothing in DC could possibly measure up to the NY equivalent. Please move back.

Why don't you move back?

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Anyone with the Don't Tread On Me license plate.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Women who wear burkas. When I see them and their families, especially when I'm with my kids, I really want them to get back to their own country. I do not want women in burkas (and the men who make them wear them or the children who then thing it's ok) in our country.

Yes, prejudiced. I know.

I just don't like feeling like the burka wearing women came all the way to the U.S., only to still be treated like second class citizens; while they eye the American women in their shorts, as if the American people are in the wrong. When in Rome.....

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Anonymous wrote:Right now I'm a bit prejudiced against web forum owners/moderators (Jeff) who allow this kind of crap to appear as a new topic every week.

I like Jeff Steele but I'm getting a bit tired of seeing this crap. Yes, I know, I have a choice.

Right to Free Speech and all.

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Anonymous wrote:My Dad was a Military Officer. So I have to be careful with my attitude about Enlisted Military. I naturally look down on them since I spent my entire childhood being very aware of difference between Officers and Enlisted. Totally realize it's BS

I know nothing about such things. Can you expand on the difference between officers and enlisted?

Think White Collar vs. Blue Collar. Officers are college educated, do desk jobs or things like Pilot. Enlisted aren't college educated, more hands on jobs like mechanic.

The military makes it very clear that Officers are better--an Officer in uniform can go to the front of the line at the Commissary (grocery store) or hospital ER. One time, as I was sick and had a fever, I had to wait for my Dad to change into uniform so once we got to the ER we would be seen first. As a child, you know which kid's Dads outrank your Dad.

So do that affect which kids became friends? Did officers kids tend to befriend other officers kids or did the kids not really care?

Yes and no. When I lived on base and went to a DOD school, I had friends that were Officer and Enlisted kids. It didn't really affect the friendship in that we thought we were better than them. But we knew the difference. I was an only child and we had a 3 bdr townhouse. She had a sibling (so 2 kids) in a 2 or 3 bdr cockroach infested apartment. When I lived off base and went to regular public schools, I don't think I had any friends that were enlisted kids. I think I might have been friends with some officer kids, but I don't remember. But all my friends were middle to upper middle income. There wouldn't have been a chance for me to meet any Enlisted kids since they economically wouldn't be living in neighborhoods that went to my school.

You have NO idea how bad it really is. Mil gave birth in a hallway, because higher ranking wives took the birthing rooms. No. Effing. Way.

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I love how no one says a peep when people say they hate all liberals or all christians etc. but if someone says the don't like blacks the thread gets in an uproar.

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Anonymous wrote:Original Military poster here-- I know that the deep segregation that I was exposed to while a kid and my Dad was military is BS. I know that there are very smart and educated Enlisted, and that there are educated but dumb Officers.

But you can't say that somehow my parents raised me wrong. The division is everywhere! Just look at Officer housing vs. Enlisted housing. I had friends who where enlisted kids (and my Mom friends with enlisted wives), but everyone always knew the rank and importance of the Dads. I didn't treat the enlisted kids differently, but all you had to do is go their on-base cockroach infested apartment to see that even the Military thought lesser of them.

As for the hospital ER, I might have been misremembering the story, but I have a distinct memory of waiting for my Dad to change into uniform so we would be seen faster. And I have a vague memory of even thinking it was messed up that an Officer's kid would be seen sooner than an Enlisted kid just because of the uniform.

Regardless of whether my memory is right or wrong, I still have a deep seated prejudice towards Enlisted that I have to consciously fight. I work with many Enlisted and Officers and I have to remind myself to keep my stupid thoughts in check. It's gotten better, but always there under the surface.

And unlike some other posters, I fight my prejudiced thoughts. I know they are wrong, but like a PP said, once a prejudice is engrained it's hard to get rid of completely.

If it makes you feel any better, in the south the officer housing, even O6+ housing, has cockroaches too...except we called them palmetto bugs

Nasty giant flying things. They know no rank.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how no one says a peep when people say they hate all liberals or all christians etc. but if someone says the don't like blacks the thread gets in an uproar.

"blacks"??

That tells me an awful lot about who you are.

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I have a lot of stereotypes. Specifically,
- blacks
- Chinese
- white rednecks
- Russians
- Indians
- American soccer moms

Not that I hate them, it just I expect them to be a certain way.

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Anonymous wrote:My Dad was a Military Officer. So I have to be careful with my attitude about Enlisted Military. I naturally look down on them since I spent my entire childhood being very aware of difference between Officers and Enlisted. Totally realize it's BS

I know nothing about such things. Can you expand on the difference between officers and enlisted?

Think White Collar vs. Blue Collar. Officers are college educated, do desk jobs or things like Pilot. Enlisted aren't college educated, more hands on jobs like mechanic.

The military makes it very clear that Officers are better--an Officer in uniform can go to the front of the line at the Commissary (grocery store) or hospital ER. One time, as I was sick and had a fever, I had to wait for my Dad to change into uniform so once we got to the ER we would be seen first. As a child, you know which kid's Dads outrank your Dad.

So do that affect which kids became friends? Did officers kids tend to befriend other officers kids or did the kids not really care?

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Yes and no. When I lived on base and went to a DOD school, I had friends that were Officer and Enlisted kids. It didn't really affect the friendship in that we thought we were better than them. But we knew the difference. I was an only child and we had a 3 bdr townhouse. She had a sibling (so 2 kids) in a 2 or 3 bdr cockroach infested apartment. When I lived off base and went to regular public schools, I don't think I had any friends that were enlisted kids. I think I might have been friends with some officer kids, but I don't remember. But all my friends were middle to upper middle income. There wouldn't have been a chance for me to meet any Enlisted kids since they economically wouldn't be living in neighborhoods that went to my school.

You have NO idea how bad it really is. Mil gave birth in a hallway, because higher ranking wives took the birthing rooms. No. Effing. Way.

Actually, YOU have no idea what it is really like.

I am guessing that your mother in law is from the generation where they had teas and wore gloves and the junior wives were given jobs like carrying the general's wives' purses and cigarettes.

It is a very, very different military from the 40s through 70s and has been for some time.

If you speak to wives from your MIL's generation and earlier, ALL of them, officer and enlisted wives have incredible stories like this, including giving birth not in rooms but in hospital bays.

Your mother in laws memories of giving birth in a hallway while the major's wife got wheeled right in might not have been unique way back when, but they are nothing at all like the military of at least the past 20 years.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how no one says a peep when people say they hate all liberals or all christians etc. but if someone says the don't like blacks the thread gets in an uproar.

"blacks"??

That tells me an awful lot about who you are.

Exactly. Any idiot who refers to "blacks" and "the blacks" has told on herself.

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Anonymous wrote:republicans

Sure. And you know exactly who Republicans are from looking at them. We all have a large “R” emblazoned on our foreheads.

pretty much

many times it is easy to tell about people's political affiliations right off the bat from how they present themselves--what kind of car they drive, where they shop/what types of products they buy, their bumper stickers, the way they dress/brands they wear...sure I've been wrong but generally, it's not that hard to figure out who's who when it comes to politics...also, you don't have to immediately know who belongs to which group to be prejudiced against a group of people

What kinds of cars, clothing brands, and products are stereotypically Republican to you? I'm actually not being snarky -- I'd like to know if the things I buy give off a certain impression of me.

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Tourists.

Tourists on the metro.

Tourists in Chinatown.

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Anonymous wrote:My Dad was a Military Officer. So I have to be careful with my attitude about Enlisted Military. I naturally look down on them since I spent my entire childhood being very aware of difference between Officers and Enlisted. Totally realize it's BS

I know nothing about such things. Can you expand on the difference between officers and enlisted?

Think White Collar vs. Blue Collar. Officers are college educated, do desk jobs or things like Pilot. Enlisted aren't college educated, more hands on jobs like mechanic.

The military makes it very clear that Officers are better--an Officer in uniform can go to the front of the line at the Commissary (grocery store) or hospital ER. One time, as I was sick and had a fever, I had to wait for my Dad to change into uniform so once we got to the ER we would be seen first. As a child, you know which kid's Dads outrank your Dad.

So do that affect which kids became friends? Did officers kids tend to befriend other officers kids or did the kids not really care?

K

Yes and no. When I lived on base and went to a DOD school, I had friends that were Officer and Enlisted kids. It didn't really affect the friendship in that we thought we were better than them. But we knew the difference. I was an only child and we had a 3 bdr townhouse. She had a sibling (so 2 kids) in a 2 or 3 bdr cockroach infested apartment. When I lived off base and went to regular public schools, I don't think I had any friends that were enlisted kids. I think I might have been friends with some officer kids, but I don't remember. But all my friends were middle to upper middle income. There wouldn't have been a chance for me to meet any Enlisted kids since they economically wouldn't be living in neighborhoods that went to my school.

You have NO idea how bad it really is. Mil gave birth in a hallway, because higher ranking wives took the birthing rooms. No. Effing. Way.

Actually, YOU have no idea what it is really like.

I am guessing that your mother in law is from the generation where they had teas and wore gloves and the junior wives were given jobs like carrying the general's wives' purses and cigarettes.

It is a very, very different military from the 40s through 70s and has been for some time.

If you speak to wives from your MIL's generation and earlier, ALL of them, officer and enlisted wives have incredible stories like this, including giving birth not in rooms but in hospital bays.

Your mother in laws memories of giving birth in a hallway while the major's wife got wheeled right in might not have been unique way back when, but they are nothing at all like the military of at least the past 20 years.

But we aren't talking about how O and E get treated now. We are talking about prejudices and how they get created. That's great that the military doesn't differentiate between the ranks now (according to a few posters here, but I find that hard to believe), but in the past they did. And that is how I grew up and that is what shaped my thoughts.

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Anonymous wrote:AAs - sorry but they as a group have ruined their own reputation.

Georgetown undergrads -- rich, entitled, yet not all that bright or outstanding. At least at the ivys you find rich, entitled students who are incredibly bright; every time I've dealt with a Georgetown undergrad recently I've wondered -- is the school really that good and that hard to get into or is it just a big deal due to name brand in certain circles. Felt the same way about NYU undergrads when I lived in NYC, though Georgetown undergrads take the cake for being rich but dumb.

Please explain how AA as a group have ruined their reputation.

I don't know -- threatening cops, highest unemployment rates, highest incarceration rates, baby mommas and baby daddies all over the damn place. As a group they don't come across looking so great, even if the ones on here will jump in and respond that they and their DH are Harvard educated neurosurgeons and 2 kids in private school.