Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: March 29, 2024, 2:15 am

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Do you have any prejudices?
#11
RE: Do you have any prejudices?
(May 27, 2013 at 4:39 am)Ivy Wrote: I was wrong. I generalized. I took a few bad experiences as a child and didn't even notice I was applying them to everyone who fit that description. I was wrong and I'm so sorry. I really am.

You fine, girl Smile Chu sorry about anyway: least it ain't sewing machines yer pologizin' ter.

Men, for some reason, I just don't make any friends of them in the flesh-world. Doesn't matter what kind of man, either... gay, transexual, even the 'males' of other species: I'm plenty amicable with them, but we never hang out. It's bizarre. For the life of me I just cannot know why Sleepy

I'm not sorry. Men are to be banged, and not to be heard Wink
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
Reply
#12
RE: Do you have any prejudices?
I fucking hate the Volus. And those uppity high elves.
[Image: american-flag-banner.jpg]
Reply
#13
RE: Do you have any prejudices?
(May 27, 2013 at 4:39 am)Ivy Wrote: I was wrong. I generalized. I took a few bad experiences as a child and didn't even notice I was applying them to everyone who fit that description. I was wrong and I'm so sorry. I really am.
This. Everyone has their prejudices, whether they recognize them as such, or not.
The challenge is to recognize prejudices for what they are, unfair biases of an entire group often based on individual examples. And ultimately to overcome them.

My main recognizable prejudice? Southern accents. In conversation I'll often assume a person with a Southern accent is less educated and less intelligent than someone without a pronounced accent. Of course this is entirely biased and often incorrect. When I catch myself doing this, I try to mentally check myself and give the person back those automatically deducted IQ points. Nobody is stupid until they prove themselves to be such, and even unintelligent people can have something important to add.
Reply
#14
RE: Do you have any prejudices?
(May 27, 2013 at 1:53 am)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Only negatively prejudiced with one group:

Sewing machines. Seriously: fuck sewing machines. I've been known to refuse homeless sewing machines a night's stay in my house, known to lynch the sewing machines I pass by in the street, known to spit upon a beaten and battered sewing machine so as to let it know how unwelcome it is in my presence (it's MY sidewalk, get the fuck off), and even known to refuse sewing machines jobs based on invented reasons they can't do their job.

What about bananas?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
Reply
#15
RE: Do you have any prejudices?
(May 27, 2013 at 8:53 am)festive1 Wrote: My main recognizable prejudice? Southern accents. In conversation I'll often assume a person with a Southern accent is less educated and less intelligent than someone without a pronounced accent. Of course this is entirely biased and often incorrect. When I catch myself doing this, I try to mentally check myself and give the person back those automatically deducted IQ points. Nobody is stupid until they prove themselves to be such, and even unintelligent people can have something important to add.

Yeah, I'm guilty of that one, too. In my defense, however, most of the people I have met in real life with southern accents actually were less educated and less intelligent.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
Reply
#16
RE: Do you have any prejudices?
Erm what? The OP:

Quote: in Mullahstan or Niggerstan or wherever.

...
Nemo me impune lacessit.
Reply
#17
RE: Do you have any prejudices?
(May 27, 2013 at 9:06 am)Stue Denim Wrote: Erm what? The OP:

Quote: in Mullahstan or Niggerstan or wherever.

...

Obviously the dude and those who gave kudos are niggers...
Reply
#18
RE: Do you have any prejudices?
(May 27, 2013 at 1:49 am)paulpablo Wrote: In one way I agree with you, in another way I've had girlfriends and friends who have been muslims and worst enemies who I've literally just wish would die who were white atheists, but I do live in an area where there are a lot of pakistani muslims and I've witnessed a lot of prejudice from them in the past and I do think that their beliefs are ridiculous,

In practice though, their not drinking rule does work to an extent. My area has very little drunk violence, if they managed to sort out how they treat women and non muslims I might not see their religion as such a problem.

who says they cannot behave as they do?

(May 27, 2013 at 4:39 am)Ivy Wrote: Thinking

I remember when I was a kid my brother got beat up by another kid because he was "brown". I remember standing at a Denny's for an hour because they wouldn't have us, and my dad decided to stay there and repeat to us that we had to hold our heads high, not look down, and not give them the satisfaction for a minute that they made us feel ashamed of who we were. I remember my dad coming home from work to a wife who was hiding in the closet with her kids because the neighbor was harassing and threatening us because of our race, and my dad took my brother from the hand as he went and set the man in his place.

As an adult I always thought I was open to all cultures. I moved around so much that it was possible for me to meet people from many cultures. I had Asian, African-American, Mexican, Cuban, Salvadorian, Brazilian, gay, lesbian, transsexual, poor, not so poor, educated, uneducated friends, etc. I never noticed I didn't have white friends.

When I started my current job I met so many white people and I discovered I was prejudiced. My prejudice attitude was that as soon as I met them I felt uncomfortable, defensive, scared, and certain that they didn't like me. Now I am friends with most of them and I can't believe how much I have grown fond of them. I was wrong. I generalized. I took a few bad experiences as a child and didn't even notice I was applying them to everyone who fit that description. I was wrong and I'm so sorry. I really am.

And? prejudice is normal. i thought everybody knew that.
Reply
#19
RE: Do you have any prejudices?
Quote:who says they cannot behave as they do?


What do you mean?


Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.

Impersonation is treason.





Reply
#20
RE: Do you have any prejudices?
(May 27, 2013 at 10:38 am)paulpablo Wrote:
Quote:who says they cannot behave as they do?


What do you mean?

lol.. you were citing they didn't treat women right. why should they? as if modern western values are inherently correct. lol..

(May 27, 2013 at 8:53 am)festive1 Wrote:
(May 27, 2013 at 4:39 am)Ivy Wrote: I was wrong. I generalized. I took a few bad experiences as a child and didn't even notice I was applying them to everyone who fit that description. I was wrong and I'm so sorry. I really am.
This. Everyone has their prejudices, whether they recognize them as such, or not.
The challenge is to recognize prejudices for what they are, unfair biases of an entire group often based on individual examples. And ultimately to overcome them.

My main recognizable prejudice? Southern accents. In conversation I'll often assume a person with a Southern accent is less educated and less intelligent than someone without a pronounced accent. Of course this is entirely biased and often incorrect. When I catch myself doing this, I try to mentally check myself and give the person back those automatically deducted IQ points. Nobody is stupid until they prove themselves to be such, and even unintelligent people can have something important to add.

Who says that we need to do so?

Prejudices are part of human nature. It's only contemporary morals that cite they are wrong. Go tell people 200 years ago that prejudice is wrong, and see what they say lol..
Reply



Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Would you still cook if you diddn't have to? Angrboda 41 2024 October 30, 2023 at 3:40 am
Last Post: BrianSoddingBoru4
  Any of you attend a Christian University/high school. What were your thoughts? Atomic Lava 19 2058 November 20, 2019 at 3:32 pm
Last Post: Atomic Lava
  are any of you honest enough to simply answer the question asked? Drich 120 10467 February 13, 2019 at 9:52 am
Last Post: Mister Agenda
  Any of you guys experience this? (Part 2) Foxaèr 6 1671 June 18, 2018 at 2:26 pm
Last Post: Foxaèr
  If you could look like any celebrity The Industrial Atheist 30 4729 April 23, 2018 at 1:55 pm
Last Post: downbeatplumb
  Does Anybody Around Here Have Any Dignity? laserthought 17 1488 August 17, 2017 at 6:11 am
Last Post: Cyberman
  Do you have any birth marks? brewer 28 2798 January 31, 2017 at 6:11 pm
Last Post: Edwardo Piet
  If you have an android phone you should read this. #5 is the most shocking. ErGingerbreadMandude 7 1946 December 18, 2016 at 1:14 am
Last Post: ErGingerbreadMandude
  Can any of you do novel things with your toes/feet? brewer 27 2616 March 7, 2016 at 4:46 am
Last Post: Jackalope
  If you could have any job in the world, what would it be? Joods 55 4896 December 7, 2015 at 2:51 pm
Last Post: popeyespappy



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)