Have you been at the receiving end of discrimination?

[Spherical Ice]

Then you may be entitled to compensation.

Obviously feel free to use your own discretion on how much you want to share with us, but I'm interested to hear PC's experiences (if any) with discrimination.

 

[Margot]

I am of Arab descent and I have had a few classmates let me know that myself & my family are all terrible people. It's so frustrating dealing with those kinds of people, literally nothing you can say will change their mind. And literally all I did was sit quietly in class, not bothering anyone. I'm positive those who said that didn't even know my name. One girl got up and moved to a new seat away from me to drive the point home, oiy.

 

[Controversial?]

Not properly. But I've had jeers thrown my way in some dodgy parts of the country (got told to 'fuck off home' in Wakefield at 11pm, when that's exactly what I was trying to do lol). Nothing to the scale of what a lot of people experience, however.

(Filipino dude, in case people were wondering)

 

[Mana1]

I'm thankful to have never (knowingly) been jeered at for being with my boyfriend. But its something I'm often very aware of in public, which still annoys me.

 

[Babietje]

Interesting topic.. one of which can lead to many controversial thoughts.

I'll tell you my story and let me know what you think.

I use to live in Bangkok, Thailand and use to go to school there, so was just a teenager. Well as you can imagine, as a 'white' european, you stand out.
Due to this, the locals would:
- Constantly attempt to scam/steal your money.
- Charge higher prices on almost everything because of my skin colour.
- They would always refer to you as "Falang" (something like that) which I was told was suppose to be "Foreign" but they cant actually speak English.


Now throughout the years, I've heard the argument "You're a foreigner, you can pay more money", hence confirming the racism behind it.
Some others have said that "Falang" isn't racist but hey..
Imagine the situation was reversed, and there was a black guy walking down the street, and I were to call out the N-word. -_-


Anyway, its not the worst discrimination around, it never really bothered me until someone said there's nothing wrong with it. But no matter how small it is, its still discrimination.

 

[zevarius kerensky]

as a furry, i have not faced much, but only twice as i can remember

1: while on second life, i had been on a sim were there were large quadrents, 3 of em allowed (or did not care) furries, but the 4th did not let me in the area, even if im just cutting corners... something about "were not intrested in fucking a dog" or somethin, its been years sence it happend so my memory is fuzzy on the details

2: guy added me on skype and asked me if im a furry, of course i said "yes im a furry" he called me a "gay autistic furfag" and dropped me from contacts


us furries tend 2 get alot of hate fer some reason...

 

[Corrin]

The amount of times I've been called retard because of my disability would astound you.
Or people saying I "Use it as an excuse" when I really can't do some things.

 

[tranceking26]

I'd have to deal with bullshit at school because I've always been really pale white and used to be skinny.

 

[tokyodrift]

Not directly, but I'm sure it has happened indirectly. I don't really pay that much attention. In my city especially, it's pretty hard to be African American and a homosexual since there are lots of conservative people.

 

[Bidoof FTW]

If being roasted for being white and bad at dancing counts as discrimination then I've got a lot stories to tell.

 

[Syndrome]

I'm African American and I live in Mississippi, so there are uh...lot's of stories to tell. I'll just leave it at yes.

 

[Her]

being openly gay in a very small, religious town deep in the countryside?

you guess

 

[Adore]

I've been assaulted, as well as regularly harassed and called the f-slur for being gay.

People are awful.

 

[SeventhDawn]

Indirectly, yes. But not for the reasons you might think.

 

[gimmepie]

I've had uni lecturers who marked me far lower than I should have received because of my disability and likely my age to when I was first starting course work. Of course I can't actually prove that though.

Otherwise I've had a few people now and then treat me like less of a person or talk to me like I'm an idiot when they find out about my autism or anxiety problems. Nothing pisses me off more than when someone I'm clearly smarter than talks to me like I might struggle to understand or something.

 

[Azelf Ibrahim]

I am of Arab descent and I have had a few classmates let me know that myself & my family are all terrible people. It's so frustrating dealing with those kinds of people, literally nothing you can say will change their mind. And literally all I did was sit quietly in class, not bothering anyone. I'm positive those who said that didn't even know my name. One girl got up and moved to a new seat away from me to drive the point home, oiy.

I've also experienced this for being Arab, also for being quiet way back in school.

They're just afraid of difference. Not much you can say unfortunately, you can just be kind and outgoing to them and maybe they'll get the picture that you mean no harm or you can ignore them which I did since I wasn't really bothered about it.

Those people need to learn how to look at a person as an individual.

 

[zakisrage]

Plenty of times, actually. Being a Lebanese Muslim living in Australia definitely has its downs when people bring up the Cronulla riots and the Sydney gang rapes just to piss me off. It died down for a while, but the whole thing with ISIS and the European migrant crisis has made it flare up again. People have called me a sand ******, a terrorist, a rapist, a wog, a Lebo (I especially hate that term) and just about every other name in the book.

High school was the worst. I was on a swim team, and I remember there was one team from another school that had several members who made Islamophobic taunts whenever I was around - I remember one guy sneered at me with this quote: "Why are you on a swim team when your bloody Quran tells you it's haram to expose your thighs?" I nearly gave the guy a knuckle sandwich, but two of my teammates restrained me. Actually, that was a problem in general - non-Muslims telling me what I was doing was against my religion, such as listening to music, growing my hair long, wearing clothing that exposed my legs, celebrating my birthday, being friends with non-Muslims, and a whole bunch of other stuff. News flash: millions of Muslims all over the world do things that the Quran supposedly forbids.

I'm also autistic, but the anti-Muslim attitudes overshadowed the anti-autism attitudes. I remember one person saying they didn't think autistic Muslims existed because they thought Muslims killed autistic people.

 

[Winter]

Being a flamboyant feminine phallus-lover in a conservative Asian society made for a really trying life in school (made worse by the fact that it's a Christian school).