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

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Anonymous wrote:I'm from a town that is currently 89% white growing up it was 95% white. ( thanks google )I didn't really know anyone who was black or Hispanic until I was an adult and moved away. I also had never met someone who was Jewish or anyone who admitted out loud that they were not religious. My high school of 1,200 kids had 3 Asians ( all 3 were adopted by white parents ) and the rest were white. I just have always liked what I know which is white, Christian , democrat. I don't hate others but they are not apart of my everyday life. So yes I'm probably prejudice.

I can count in single digits exactly how many black kids were in my entire four-grade high school. If my mom saw a black person walking down the street she'd slow the car, and wonder out loud "What's he doing here?" before consoling herself with "Oh, he must be a bus boy at the diner." I honestly had no clue that Asians or Hispanics were a race other than white. I thought the only two races were black and white, and white just had a LOT of variation.

I've worked with and gone to lunch with black people, but have never been in a black person's house or had a black person to my house. I'm not against either of those things happening - it's just that I've never been close enough to a black person for it to happen. I assume I'm prejudiced and am VERY careful about what I say and stay quiet any time I'm not positive.

I'm black, and reading this makes me sad. I wish I could invite you over for dinner. You seem very sweet and self aware. It's that awareness that makes it so bearable.

I'm white, and I wish I knew you IRL. I grew up in 100% white environment. There was literally one girl (I didn't even know her personally) whose father was African in our part of town. There were some Vietnamese guest workers, but that was it. I bet most people in the U.S. will find this difficult to believe

Anyways, I've lived in New Hampshire for over 10 years, where I saw a few black folks in passing. Now I'm in the 50/50 white/black southern environment, and I find it absolutely fascinating. I wish I had a chance to make closer friendships with black people. They seem warm, friendly, family-oriented, more in tune with my foreign upbringing than most white Americans. I hate that outside of workplace everything is so segregated by choice on both sides. I wish things were different.

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I have a strong antipathy toward people who subscribe to stereotypes and generalizations.

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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.

I'm sure that this is true in general, but there are enlisted men with jobs requiring intellect. My cousin was a translator in the marines and went through intensive language learning courses to quickly learn Arabic and later Pashto. I'm sure there are other examples.

My son enlisted and has a college degree. He enlisted because he was then able to choose his area of specialty instead of just being assigned. He also wanted the experience of the enlisted man if he decided to go the officer route.
While most enlisted people probably do not have college degrees, this does not mean they lack intellect. Many could not afford college. I have met some very intelligent enlisted soldiers.

The original poster stated that she/he knows it is total BS, but that was how she/he was raised. Intellectually you know it is wrong but you gut reaction goes back to what you were taught, that is why prejudice is so incideous.

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Anonymous wrote:Against whom you are prejudiced?

Thank you.

I'm with the PPs with the prejudice against anti-vaxxers. It's a proxy for a whole set of traits and beliefs.

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

Have to say I agree with this.

Next-level selfishness. Like extinction level crazy.

It's going to sound so inflammatory, but I'm being honest here. When I see the effect of anti-vaxxers and their ardent support for something that can only endanger us as a species, I feel like I have gotten a glimpse at the same phenomenon that allowed Hitler to rise to power and devour millions of people. It's a willful bit of denial that costs other people their sense of social safety.

They are truly scary. Like, concentration camp level scary.

I find people like you scary and most people who freak put about non-vaxers because it shows how little common sense there is. Understand that when you are out and about, you are almost always in contact with multiple non vaxed people.

I try not to think about it because it feels like the beginning of a terrible story about how a plague swallowed the world, a bunch of willfully-ignorant, intentionally-obtuse people put everyone at risk. Bubonic plague, the influenza epidemic---these happened because we didn't have the tools to spare us. These preventable diseases, however, are going to spread and destroy lives because of the selfishness and, again, willful-denial and anti-science, anti-common-sense choices of a dangerous, entitled few.

Scary.

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I'm prejudiced against how I was raised and who I used to be. I was raised in a bubble of intellectual and cultural arrogance, looking down on pretty much everybody as less intellectual and cerebral. My parent was a true narcissist. So in this case, maybe it is more an allergy or a rejection of something I do know about rather than fear of the unknown.

The best counter-influences that I will always be thankful for influencing me in a better direction were both white and black Christians, as well as some very independent minded, artisan and arts people who rejected the beaten path and credential ing.

It both pains me and reminds me of my own behavior to see mindless, conformist prejudice against blue collar, Christians, and cultural things associated with these groups. I know I've contributed to that.

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Anonymous wrote:Ultra-conservative Christians

Ultra-conservative anyone. Fundamentalist anyone.

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Gay people who are racists.
Black people who are homophobic.

Drives me crazy.

The show Blackish addressed the issue... It was so funny, the black mom was quoting Leviticus while she ate shrimp. (For those that don't know Leviticus is not only the part of the bible people use to say being gay is wrong it also says to not eat shellfish.)

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I am not proud of it and wish I could stop being prejudice but Asian drivers. Got t-boned by an Asian lady last month. When we got out of the car my H and I looked at each other and broke out laughing... Not the normal reaction when you are t-boned.

It did not help that she kept saying, "I do not know what happened."

Um, you went through a stop sign.

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I can not think of any group I hate...I strongly dislike some ideologies, but that is not groups. For example, I cringe when someone tries to proselytize their religion. And, I dislike hypocrites -- think the tea party members that want government handouts because, well, in their case it is different....

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Jewish women who are lawyers

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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.

Any active duty person in uniform can go to the front of the line, whether officer or enlisted. And I've never been to a military health care facility where there was a faster line for children of officers in uniform. (There is separate health care for flag level officers and their families, but by the time people get to those ranks, it is extremely unusual to have young children, and there are only a few hospitals that even provide this service.)

It's possible that someone might wear a uniform to take a child into the ER in hopes of making it clear that he or she is active duty, not retired, but not to jump to the head of the line. Most officers I have known over more than thirty years treat enlisted people with the utmost respect and would, in fact, make sure that the enlisted person went ahead of the officer. The job of the officer is to lead and take care of his people and that is ingrained in officers from the very beginning of their training. We always taught our children to respect enlisted military members because they are the military.

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Anonymous wrote:lawyers

Everyone hates lawyers until they need one.

Newsflash: google public interest lawyer...they're the coolest people on the planet.

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Aggressively stupid people who think they know everything.