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Have you ever been discriminated against?

Who was it that discriminated against you?
What group, if any, are/were you a part of?
How did it feel?
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    FunnyLookingCorpse - 18-21 years old

    Posted by FunnyLookingCorpse 1 Nov 12th, 2012 at 1:08PM

    Not often, but I can't stand to hear the stories of people being bullied because they are fat. It is the one thing in this world that is capable of making me completely angry.

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  1. Taldaris - 18-21 years old - male

    Reply by Taldaris Nov 12th, 2012 at 1:25PM

    I know how you feel. I was fat when I was little. Bullied all the time, and then I hit puberty and shot up. Ended up to be one of the skinny kids.

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  2. FunnyLookingCorpse - 18-21 years old

    Reply by FunnyLookingCorpse Nov 12th, 2012 at 6:56PM

    I was only at that state at the time when everyone gets a little fat (at 10 or so). You don't know how I feel because I genuinely care about groups of people I don't even have real experience with.

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18 Answers to "Have you ever been discriminated against?"

  1. azurebites - 46-50 years old - female

    Posted by azurebites Nov 12th, 2012 at 1:37PM

    Yes. I worked for a mostly male company for 17 years and had asked for a repair/dispatch position. The boss said. "I have enough problems dealing with all this, I don't need a girl to deal with as well." I didn't say anything for a few days but when we had a department meeting with the regional manager, he asked "Is there anything we can do to make things better?" and I said, "Yes, ask so and so why his life would be so much better without working with a girl. " I didn't get that job, but I got the next 2. Managers thought a female could not do their job and to attempt to prove their point, one of the male managers had me dig a ditch through asphault. Of course I did it and never complained and they gave me jobs like re-stripe the parking lot and pick up their laundry, and I didn't care. There were a couple of other issues within that company but I ended up moving.

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  2. rickibrat2 - 61-65 years old - male

    Posted by rickibrat2 Nov 12th, 2012 at 2:40PM

    very few viet nam vets were not
    we were called names and many other things done to us

    my first job i had to work for a 18 year old kid who thought her knew it all special about viet nam

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  3. farmgirl60 - 46-50 years old - female

    Posted by farmgirl60 Nov 12th, 2012 at 2:39PM

    Yes and it is an awful thing especially when you have no recourse

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  4. pengimachine - 18-21 years old - female

    Posted by pengimachine Nov 12th, 2012 at 2:04PM

    When I was little, we live in a big city about a block away from low income housing. Every time I would ride my bike anywhere the kids from that building were, they would throw garbage at me and yell that I stole their bike, which I had bought from a flea market. Once they threw a glass bottle at me so hard that it broke when it hit me.
    It would have been a hate crime had I been doing this to those kids, but since they were black and I'm white, it was just everyday life for me.

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  5. HedoZen - 41-45 years old - female

    Posted by HedoZen Nov 12th, 2012 at 1:56PM

    my answer will be well developed and so putting this in so I can retrace ya

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  6. KittenHasaWhip - 46-50 years old - female

    Posted by KittenHasaWhip Nov 12th, 2012 at 1:54PM

    I am a woman, so yes.

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  7. sharpTresHombre - 41-45 years old - male

    Posted by sharpTresHombre Nov 12th, 2012 at 1:49PM

    australians

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  8. hairtostay - 31-35 years old - female

    Posted by hairtostay Nov 12th, 2012 at 1:36PM

    I have been discriminated against on many fronts, for various reasons. I'm not going into detail, screw it. But this is why I don't discriminate against ANYONE. Its ridiculous--

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  9. naughteebynature - 36-40 years old - male

    Posted by naughteebynature Nov 12th, 2012 at 1:21PM

    yes lots of times but i dont give a **** you know why "CAUSE IM A CRIMINAL" HA HA HA !

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  10. bijouxbroussard - 46-50 years old - female

    Posted by bijouxbroussard Nov 12th, 2012 at 1:20PM

    Yes, definitely...overtly and subtly. I've called for meetings about housing, part-time work as an accompanist, various things over the years. It was often clear upon my arrival that the person wasn't connecting whom they saw with the voice they'd heard over the phone.

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  11. tac3004 - 46-50 years old - female

    Posted by tac3004 Nov 12th, 2012 at 1:13PM

    YES, JPMorgan Chase and Cardinal Health try to get rid of you after the age of 43

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  12. benetal - 70+ years old

    Posted by benetal Nov 12th, 2012 at 1:12PM

    Not that i noticed.

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  13. BabzEsq24 - 46-50 years old - female

    Posted by BabzEsq24 Nov 12th, 2012 at 1:09PM

    I may have---but I k I ignored it

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  14. majellastgerard2 - 46-50 years old - male

    Posted by majellastgerard2 Nov 12th, 2012 at 1:06PM

    i am white and i went to a bar with a couple guys after work they were black, we went to this seedy bar in jersey city, on ocean ave. when i went up to the bar to order the bar tender ignored me , look right at me and walked away. all i could do was laugh and shake my head. this was like 1979

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  15. minatek616 - 22-25 years old - male

    Posted by minatek616 Nov 12th, 2012 at 1:02PM

    yes, overweight individual in high school. I felt pretty good after jamming a sharpened pencil in his gut.

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  16. Adonia1 - 36-40 years old - female

    Posted by Adonia1 Nov 12th, 2012 at 1:02PM

    yes, by Germans in Dubai... they acted superior over me at work.. they were doing it to all others by I didn't take it and left

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  17. IMAGINATIONATWORK - 36-40 years old

    Posted by IMAGINATIONATWORK Nov 12th, 2012 at 1:00PM

    Yes
    As soon as they see my face
    Especially at banks

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