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

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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.

what would you prefer?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Sounds misanthropic, bro.

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cultures that make their women wear black sheets over their head and body in the 80's degree heat while the men wear t-shirts and tennis sneakers. there was a family at vienna festival and she looked like she was doing hard time. I felt so badly for her and even more so for the little girls in the family having to grow up in that environment.

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People who have been in the United States over a decade and don't speak english.

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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.

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.

Actually, I was not responding to you. You have made it clear that was how you remember things from back when you were a kid.

I was responding to the poster who said that you have no idea how bad the military IS (ie present tense) and then used an example from her mother in law from decades ago.

Things have changed and telling people who don't know any better that the military treats its families like that now, as in present tense, but using an example like she used, is just no longer correct.

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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.

So then anyone who has ever said "whites" or "white people" are idiots too? Does that include you?

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Anonymous wrote:cultures that make their women wear black sheets over their head and body in the 80's degree heat while the men wear t-shirts and tennis sneakers. there was a family at vienna festival and she looked like she was doing hard time. I felt so badly for her and even more so for the little girls in the family having to grow up in that environment.

We were at the beach in Hawaii of all places, in the blazing sun.

A family was next to us. Dad and boys in swim trunks. Mom, grandma, and daughters in head to toe to wrist heavy black drapes. At least their faces were visible. I smiled when we made eye contact but inside I was crying for them. I was hot and sweaty in my two piece and could not fathom sitting in the sand covered in black while my husband ran around in the surf in shorts.

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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.

Oh don't forget how it's ok to say they hate white people or white Americans

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Where are you guys seeing all these women in burkas or niquab in the DC area? Granted I'm new to the area but Muslim and have never personally known anyone that did burka in the US. I am kind of stunned by how many young women in this area do hijab (just the head scarf - not head to toe blank robes).

Those men are such hypocrites. Making their wives and daughters cover head to toe like that in 100 degree heat at six flags or in Hawaii while they wander in swim trunks. Guess in exerting their dominance, they forgot to read the holy book which requires men to be covered from the naval to below the knees; I suppose they could religiously get away w a tank top and some kind of Capri swim trunks but I'm sure those assholes you saw were wearing regular board shorts w no shirts and w no concern for whether the wife dehydrated.

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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.

Oh don't forget how it's ok to say they hate white people or white Americans

"They"?

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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.

Oh don't forget how it's ok to say they hate white people or white Americans

"They"?

NP I hope you are being facetious.

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Women who can But do not breastfeed.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are you guys seeing all these women in burkas or niquab in the DC area? Granted I'm new to the area but Muslim and have never personally known anyone that did burka in the US. I am kind of stunned by how many young women in this area do hijab (just the head scarf - not head to toe blank robes).

Those men are such hypocrites. Making their wives and daughters cover head to toe like that in 100 degree heat at six flags or in Hawaii while they wander in swim trunks. Guess in exerting their dominance, they forgot to read the holy book which requires men to be covered from the naval to below the knees; I suppose they could religiously get away w a tank top and some kind of Capri swim trunks but I'm sure those assholes you saw were wearing regular board shorts w no shirts and w no concern for whether the wife dehydrated.

tysons galleria, or by the Avalon Tysons Corner, or mclean giant at night.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are you guys seeing all these women in burkas or niquab in the DC area? Granted I'm new to the area but Muslim and have never personally known anyone that did burka in the US. I am kind of stunned by how many young women in this area do hijab (just the head scarf - not head to toe blank robes).

Those men are such hypocrites. Making their wives and daughters cover head to toe like that in 100 degree heat at six flags or in Hawaii while they wander in swim trunks. Guess in exerting their dominance, they forgot to read the holy book which requires men to be covered from the naval to below the knees; I suppose they could religiously get away w a tank top and some kind of Capri swim trunks but I'm sure those assholes you saw were wearing regular board shorts w no shirts and w no concern for whether the wife dehydrated.

I hate niqab more than most people, but it's not always the men forcing the women to wear niqab. Many women chose it for themselves. "Proving my piety," I call it. Just like the men who try their hardest to have the darkest, biggest zehbibah on their foreheads. Sure, there are men forcing their wives, etc. to wear niqab, but you'd be surprised how many women are thrilled to wear it, often against family wishes.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there one specific group that rises above the rest that you are generally prejudiced against? And why?

Prejudice is a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

Would bet that most responses to your query have little idea that is what it is. Based on that...I have none.

But, based on reason and actual experience I loathe bigotry. Which isn't about race. "intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself."

And frankly....based on that definition there is a lot of intolerance on here therefore there are a LOT of bigots on DCUM.