# It's okay to be a bigot if you hate the Amish! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 24, 2002, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-okay-to-be-a-bigot-if-you-hate-the-amish/110680 "2002-05-24T17:52:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![celestina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@celestina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/celestina)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-okay-to-be-a-bigot-if-you-hate-the-amish/110680/41 "2002-05-28T06:18:58Z")
**Tamerlane** said: "Well, a little removed, to be sure . My mother’s father grew up in a family of sharecroppers in Mississippi. But he himself was a poor rural cop in Maryland most of his adult life. Now my father grew up on a subsistence farm and was the son of a coalminer ( who died of Black Lung, natch, a year or two after I was born ). But they were second-generation bilingual immigrants, which was sort of its own separate category." Thanks for sharing, hon. Sounds like you’ve got an interesting family what’s got a bunch of interesting stories to tell. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-okay-to-be-a-bigot-if-you-hate-the-amish/110680/42 "2002-05-28T07:41:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lissener \* > \*\*The Amish are a frequent target here at the SDMB. The last two groups it’s OK to denigrate: fat people and the Amish. I once knew this fat Amish guy . . . \*\* Hey! Some of my best friends are fat people. As a matter of fact, so am I. Leave us alone, if you please. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-okay-to-be-a-bigot-if-you-hate-the-amish/110680.md?page=2)