In your life today (not in the past), do you face discrimination or discriminatory behavior based only on an identifiable group of which you are a member? This can be ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or something else.
For the purposes of the poll, I am dividing Dopers between American (U.S.) and other nations.
No. I’m a gender-typical, straight, white, Christian male in the US. I have yet to see any discriminatory behavior towards me based on any of those factors. Nor do I expect to see any.
My white privilege protects me from knowing. I probably don’t get some clients because my name sounds “Jewish.” 4 out of the 5 top law schools didn’t accept me, perhaps because I am a white male. Nonetheless, I’m blissfully unaware of any discrimination against me, and feel quite privileged in my daily existence. If people knew I was an atheist, perhaps there would be some blow-back, but I don’t wear the T-shirt.
I’m a gender-typical, straight, white, atheist male in a conservative part of the US. I have experienced only mild discrimination due to my atheism - mostly manifesting in the fact that it seems to eliminate the possibility of meeting a compatible romantic partner. (As in, my relationships to date have all been abruptly terminated when the woman eventually decided to get more religious - the woman suddenly declares I’m the literal devil, and that’s that. It’s happened twice!)
One more time and you’ll vanish in a puff of sulfur smoke.
Using either definition of “discriminatory”:
Then yes, as a middle-aged straight white male, I feel I have experienced positive outcomes based on my membership in that group, as well as negative outcomes based on my membership in that group.
I never even got my T-shirt. Probably because I’m a woman!
I answered “No” but should append that to “Not in any meaningful way”. By which I mean systematic or major discrimination and not “I think maybe that black guy at the store was rude to me because I’m white” or “Once a woman said my opinions on abortion don’t count because I’m a guy”.
I’m a woman, so yes.
Affirmative action counts, so yes.
does being disabled count? I cant get a job unless they can use me as a tax write off among other things
I have encountered examples of Antisemitism my entire life, including the recent past.
Woman in a male dominated field - so yes
Where I live, it’s very common for gay white males to have some sort of “no blacks,” “no Asians,” etc. restriction on their dating / hook-up profiles.
No, but I do know from what others say that it still exists.
I am black, Hispanic, fat and female. Guess what I voted.
Yes, as a white male, hetrosexual cissexual able bodied Brit who was born here I am the only group it is still possible to discriminate against.
I have faced unintentional discrimination here and there my whole life because I am left handed.
Mister Shine, him diamond.
Not an American, but i live in the US, so i checked American.
Straight, white, well-educated man.
While it’s impossible to state definitively that no-one has ever discriminated against me for any of my identifiable characteristics, i’ve never felt not been aware of any such discrimination, so i put “No.”