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

Being at a mixed school in Northern Ireland was lots and lots of fun :frowning: 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.

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.

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

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.