Atheists - The New Oppressed?

[Eilonnwy]

Personally, I've experienced more discrimination as awoman, and as white than as an atheist and a bisexual, which mostly speaks to my personal experiences of which have been few and far between. In the general sense I don't feel constantly discriminated against. And for when I have been, I also think it happens more as a white person and a woman because being a women and white is readily visible and bisexuality and atheism is not visible. If they're not told they wouldn't know, and I don't tell everyone I meet that I am those things.

And let me qualify the being white aspect. In truth I would call it reverse racism. I have had many instances of people assuming things about me because I'm white. I've felt excluded from social circles because I have actually lived in close proximity to a black neighborhood and went to a school where there were more blacks than whites, and they disliked me becuase I was not like them. People tend to assume that because I'm white I think less of blacks and in turn actually end up being prejudice themselves. I think reverse racism/dicscimination in which you assume someone hates you and therefore react without justification is just as damaging, if not more, than basic discrimination.

I do however think that atheism is discriminated against and has less understanding than homosexuality.