Have you ever been hated or discriminated?

Question

What was the main cause of discrimination?
Have you been discriminated because of your color, religion, belief, nationality, shape etc.?
can you describe a personal incident if you can?

do you feel that sometimes people try to avoid you because of yourself?

thanks for you guys for your answers.

Answer 1

Yes... for my religion, which is why I rarely tell people what it is anymore. It's really none of their business anyway. I've also had people think I was Mexican or spoke Spanish because of my last name (which is Portuguese... and no, I don't speak that, either). That one's particularly irritating. I've had people try to get into inane political arguments with me because of my veteran's status and experience in the Iraq war, regardless of the fact that I don't really care to discuss it with people who have already made up their minds beforehand (not that they care to listen to what I have to say about it anyway). At various times, I've even had people make fun of me because I'm much more articulate than other males my age, and because I have absolutely zero interest in the same kinds of stereotypical, superficial nonsense most males my age tend to be interested in.

Life's just fun like that, I suppose...

Answer 2

the two. Discriminated against For Being a woman. Hated For...i do no longer Even comprehend. i do no longer start up Fights and that i do no longer Hate On Others regardless of if There Be A reason To Or no longer. i'm merely A Peace Maker. Why start up extra issues?

Answer 3

In a very real way, my religious beliefs, or lack of them are persecuted.

I work for charities and education departments that are christian based, i do this because i feel i have a moral obligation (it keeps me alive) to help my fellow man and there are no secular organistations that are able to exist that do this (the tax-breaks churches get make charities far more affordable to sustain).

If they found out i was an atheist, all the work i've done would be devalued. The systems i've set up would be pulled down and the kids i've helped would be taught to shun me. Needless to say i'd be fired and replaced by some underqualified moron with a cross around their neck without so much as a thankyou- a situation i've witnessed many times in christian systems. As long as they think i'm religious, i'm a saint to them, and my kids get the help they need. So i shut up, genuflect, and watch my peers get persecuted and my students are taught hatred- under the guise of love...

It's disgusting. And when i read an edict given by the very first Catholic Emperor (who was instrumental in the compilation of the first bible..) it almost makes me cry that in 313AD, someone so important, and so influential... got it so right, and those after him tore down his foundations...

"We thought it fit to commend these things most fully to your care that you may know that we have given to those Christians free and unrestricted opportunity of religious worship. When you see that this has been granted to them by us, your Worship will know that we have also conceded to other religions the right of open and free observance of their worship for the sake of harmony, that each one may have the free opportunity to worship as he pleases ; this regulation is made we that we may not seem to detract from any dignity or any religion."

Answer 4

Hate and discrimination are some of the religious principles that religious believers use against anyone else that doesn't believe what they believer, be it right or wrong.

Just like when Jesus taught about Universal Truth...
the jews and romans tried to kill him, but he was beyond their intentions.
That's the same things religious believers are trying to do to me...persecution is not nice.

Go beyond religion and DO this:

Create Your Relationship with Our Creator
and have UnConditional Love and Peace in Your Life.

Answer 5

I have had people try to "throw the demon out of me" when I was trying to make a living in New Orleans (on Jackson Square) by offering Tarot Readings.

I have had people shout scripture at me including "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." when I had not even spoken a single word to them.

I can only think that these incidents were because of the persons objection to my religion or occupation

Answer 6

Yes. It first happened when I was eleven and I went to a mixed faith school. One girl told me she was going to kill me because I was a 'f------kng yid'.

Over the years I've heard many other racist comments; mostly they are said in front of me about other Jewish people because I have quite fair colouring and so many people wrongly assume I can't be Jewish. So I get to really hear what some narrow minded, ignorant people think about my religion - and it never fails to hurt and shock me.

Luckily, most people are decent! But racism, when I encounter it, is truly horrible.

Answer 7

Yes, on the basis of both religion and ethnicity. I was mostly harassed about my religion, though. People would leave anti-Catholic material on my family's doorstep, and one year at Halloween, somebody put an extremely anti-Catholic pamphlet in my trick-or-treat bag. I got used to being called names by other kids while growing up and being told that I was going to burn in hell for being Catholic. Somebody tore up a picture of the Pope and stuck it in our mailbox. As for nationality, there are several very derogatory terms for Italians, and I've been called pretty much all of them. When I was growing up, sometimes people would shout these names at me as I walked to school. In those cases, they would also sometimes make fun of me for being Catholic, as well.

Answer 8

When I was a Marine back in the 70s. Thanks to Mr. Kerry and company you couldn't go anywhere in Southern California without "feelin' the heat".

Now, as a Christian the flames of discrimination are growing.
I have a small Guidion Bible in my brief case that was given to me by the Gidions 40 years ago in my 5th grade classroom. Last February two Gidions were arrested in front of a public school in Florida for handing out Bibles on a public sidewalk.

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/issues/religiousfreedom/default.aspx?cid=4202

Answer 9

Yes, I am an atheist.

The entire town I lived in was Irish Catholic. When I foolishly let my knowledge be known to others I was persecuted in many ways. So much so that I eventually left that town and that state.

Answer 10

I'm gay...lol...enough said.

I'm not one of those "thuper-gay" guys either. People usually don't know unless I tell them. And really, 99% of the time, when people find out about it, they're OK with it, at least to my face. But I have experienced the other 1% as well. I can't even say I actually get offended by it - I'm just like, wait, this is really happening to me? I don't know, it seems like anti-gay bigotry is something you're only confronted with on Y!A, R&S Section...lol.