# Have you ever been a victim of a racial, ethnic or anti=Semitic slur? What were ...

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 12, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-a-victim-of-a-racial-ethnic-or-anti-semitic-slur-what-were/108643 "2002-05-12T16:07:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-a-victim-of-a-racial-ethnic-or-anti-semitic-slur-what-were/108643/81 "2002-05-21T15:34:29Z")

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Being at a mixed school in Northern Ireland was lots and lots of fun ☹ Although it was officially mixed, in the past it was Protestant only and is still mostly attended by Protestants so having Irish/Catholic parents ment I got the full monty thrown at me; Fenian, taig, rebel and more. Most of them I didn’t understand, even when my parents explained I still didn’t know why I was being called these names. I would have liked to explain to these people that I have no religion and nationality is of no concern to me, soon we’ll all be EU citizens anyway, but try telling them that. Better yet, after school I had to take the abuse hurled by the people from the mostly Catholic town I lived in :rolleyes: the uniform for them being an indicator of my religion.

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**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-a-victim-of-a-racial-ethnic-or-anti-semitic-slur-what-were/108643/82 "2002-05-22T00:03:13Z")

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I grew up in Providence and went to college there. One of my classmates asked me once if I had family in the mafia. I said no, and he insisted that I must, since I’m Italian and from Providence. Again, I said no. So he said that I **must** have family in the mob, but I just don’t know it.

And yes, I do refuse to watch the Sopranos on principle.

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-a-victim-of-a-racial-ethnic-or-anti-semitic-slur-what-were/108643/83 "2002-05-22T00:53:50Z")

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I’ve been called a queer (not in a nice way), a fudgepacker, and a _fif_ (fag), that I remember at the moment.

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**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-a-victim-of-a-racial-ethnic-or-anti-semitic-slur-what-were/108643/84 "2002-05-22T04:04:34Z")

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I haven’t been called many names (I don’t count “gaijin” as a slur by itself), but I’ve been turned away by a lot of businesses that wouldn’t accept non-Japanese. The worst one was a realtor who tried to explain that it was for my own good that he wouldn’t show me any apartments, then called my girlfriend a dumb farmgirl for thinking she could bring a foreigner into this neighborhood.

**Subgirl** added the word “dickhead” to her English vocabulary that day.

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