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

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Anonymous wrote:Jewish women who are lawyers

Why? I know plenty of them and many are lovely people.

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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 understand. AF brat here. Prejudices run deep. Helps to know that officers have a culture and so do enlisted. There are often culture clashes.

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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 understand. AF brat here. Prejudices run deep. Helps to know that officers have a culture and so do enlisted. There are often culture clashes.

Back to add that I tend to be anti-Army, enlisted and officers. There's a saying in my family of origin, said disparagingly - "that's so Army." Again, different culture than USAF and I spent my childhood growing up on Army bases an deceiving medical care at Army hospitals with Army docs.

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Generational welfare recipients: how can you keep living off the state and think nothing of it

Any grown person (all colors) who stares: it's rude as hell and I've caught myself almost yelling at the person "wth are you staring at". Where I'm at, white men and black women do it the most

Loud people (all colors): I shouldn't hear your conversation a mile away.

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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 understand. AF brat here. Prejudices run deep. Helps to know that officers have a culture and so do enlisted. There are often culture clashes.

Army brat here but I agree. I've heard this or that about every branch.

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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.

+1 This was my bro. Enlisted straight out of HS because he couldn't afford college. After his service, he went on to Cal to study a STEM field and then got a Masters in Engineering. Works in Silicon Valley now.

However, I do think that the majority of enlisted are not the best and brightest, but there are a good number that are smart, but either can't afford the college route straight of HS or are lost and need some direction. I wouldn't always assume.

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Undocumented immigrants. I get it, your country sucks, but they come here and just destroy property values, drag down schools, etc.

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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.

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Evangelical Christians

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White people

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Christians who support the death penalty.

Israeli lobbyist in the United States.

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Anyone from the Bush Clan are tarnished for me.

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Jews who are very pro-Israel. This is a demographic that sees antisemitism under every rock and cries constantly about the Holocaust, but then looks on stonily as Palestinian children suffer and Israel treats even Jews of color with contempt. I had a falling out with one recently. She got mad that I made a one-line facebook post about feeling bad for Palestinian children freezing to death in Gaza.

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Ultra liberals, especially the self-loathing ones.

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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.

Thank you. The above poster is spot on. Retired Colonel's wife here. The only reason the children of military officer's would be aware of any hierarchy would be because their parents took their took their rank and prejudice home with them.