I’m prejudiced against conservatives, because I believe their views and policies are selfish and don’t work to the long-term improvement of society. I keep trying to get rid of this prejudice, but they keep reinforcing it. 
And like Caught@Work, I assume people are stupid until proven otherwise.
I despise stupid drivers.
Not bad drivers, per se, but the ones who decide that they’ll risk death, the death of others, and tens of thousands of dollars of property damage to save 10 fricking seconds and make the left turn now, instead of waiting for traffic to clear.
May they all be hit by trains, before they cause the deaths of innocent, less stupid, drivers.
welcome to the wonderful world of dyslexia. feel free to mock, im use to it.
I have another one.
When I see someone with a lot of tattoos (I mean where their arm is like, covered or something), I automatically think they’re trashy and maybe a little dangerous.
My prejudice is against people who make snap judgments based on someones appearance.
People who think spelling doesn’t matter.
Republicans.
People who think politics don’t affect their lives.
Smokers, for sure. I think they are less intelligent, dirty, trashy people. Parents who are overly concerned about bad language around their kids are another group against whom I am prejudiced. I tend to think of those people as being just plain dumb, because words are just words and they haven’t figured it out yet. I am prejudiced against women who are enamored of the whole pregnancy/birth experience, too, because I hated it.
I have another:
People who don’t think they’re prejudiced in anyway. If someone says they don’t prejudge people, THEY ARE LYING.
Some of you seem SO close minded.
I’m a bad speller, (dyslexic), and no amount of spellcheckers will make my it perfect. I don’t think it’s important because my disabilities aren’t all that define me. Most of the what you guys and gals are prejudice against I don’t personally take on. For example, I don’t have a small dog… but I think it’s very sad something like that can make people so angry, or leave them so clueless as to why anyone would thing differently then them.
If some of you are so smart, why do you let these things get to you? Granted there are people who act as if they know that their prejudice isn’t justified on this thread… that’s fine. Everyone has prejudice, but there are some who admit that they are in the wrong and would like to work on acceptance, and some who trash talk the people they are prejudice against with such anger. There are some people that just aren’t attracted to certain people, (I wouldn’t consider that prejudice), that’s cool too.
I have prejudices, but I don’t trash those people for being different. I don’t know if you could say I’m prejudice against the people I speak of in this post, but for the record… I’m not trashing any of you. I’m not saying you should all go screw yourselves, I’m just saying I feel sorry for you.
Maybe some, or all, of you are just kidding around… all I’m saying is if some of these things DO bother you as much as it seems, I really feel bad for you. I came to these boards thinking that some people must be miserable all the time being in the presence of the people who anger them so much.
MyFootsZZZ - Did we say we trashed people for being different? I understand I have a prejudice. I even agree it’s wrong. But it’s there nonethelss. I was being honest, instead of holier-than-thou.
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STGermain No, not all people trashed on this board… I’m talking to just a few on this thread.
Not very many of you. I myself am prejudice in some ways. I’m just saying, instead of some confessing their prejudices, a lot of people act as if the people they are prejudice against are bad or wrong for being the way they are.
That’s why they’re prejudices.
Anyway, your woolly-minded, bleeding-heart, who-are-we-to-judge, supercilious attitude really gets my goat. I think I must be prejudiced against such.
Oh, and I wish I’d included fat people in my humble list, it’s not just cause they take up space and wheeze everywhere (wasting perfectly good air), no – the thing that really gets me is their (almost universal) insistence that they don’t eat a lot! And that it must be there hormones or something! Christ! If that were the fact scientists would be working day and night to distill that hormone to send to some starving third-world stick people and bag themselves a Nobel Prize.
People who hate people – I’m with the late, great Bill Hicks, we should form a club.
Ok, I’m prejudiced about people who open a thread titled “What are your prejudices?” and get offended that some people are prejudiced against them. I tend to view tham as over-sensitive idiots who need to grow up.
Smokers, particularly ones who stop me in the street and ask me if I have a cigarette. Especially when I don’t even know them. My standard reply is “Do I look stupid?”
People who live on welfare, social service, etc. I’ve worked with too many of them not to realize that some people are just too goddam freaking lazy to work. I can see having hard times and having to go on welfare, but being on it for years? And, when being told you have to get off welfare, proceeding to have another baby for the system to support? It makes me sad and it makes me angry.
I assume that men like cake. I have learned that some men do not, in fact, like cake.
I’m prejudiced against black people. It’s terrible, and I try really hard not to treat them differently, which, I guess, means that in the end I do treat them differently . . . .argh. Catch 22.
I’m prejudiced against people with poor grammar, though I think I’m pretty tolerant of bad spelling, since my spelling isn’t too hot, either. I have a friend who’s very intelligent but her grammar is pretty sad, and her email messages, when she doesn’t take a lot of time with them, are a trial to read. But I know she has worthwhile things to say, so I try to remember her when I’m tempted to dismiss someone on the basis of their poor writing, and try to look through to see the message, instead.
By the way, kids, you can’t be “prejudice.” “Prejudice” is a noun. “Prejudiced” is an adjective. The “d” doesn’t show up distinctly in speech, so it’s an easy mistake to make. Consider this little bit of advice a way to head off criticism from prejudiced jerks like me.
And, uh, furr, does your dyslexia somehow prevent you from using the “shift” key? It would make your writing much more readable. And since you have demonstrated the ability to use an apostrophe (“talkwalky’ing”) perhaps you could throw one into “I’m” now and then. Just trying to help you out, here. You’ll find that Dopers are quite intolerant of the habitual no-shift-key style. Since the written word is the only way you can make yourself look good here, it’s worth the effort.
This is ugly. I hate this in myself and I’ve struggled with it. But brutal honesty requires the admission. I’m prejudiced against “inner city Black youth.” I leap to all sorts of conclusions and judgements about drug and alcohol use, early unmarried pregnancies, irresponsibility, and lack of education. I have similar prejudices against “white trailer trash,” hillbillies and rednecks. But, honestly, I think it’s more intense when there’s a racial element.
I like to hope in my actions and behavior towards people that I overcome this. But I suspect in subtle ways I do not. In my more self-aware moments, I sense deep fears and feelings, instilled early, and very difficult to eradicate.
And…
Cheerleaders & Jocks (left over resentment from being spurned in high school?)
Pompous born-again fundamentalists
People who own “dangerous” breeds of dogs
People with overly clean homes and yards
Parents with whiney, uncontrolled children
Geeez at this point I don’t like myself very much. I’m going to go do some exercise so the anti-fat briggade won’t “hate” me.
Actually, you’re pretty brave for admitting it. I think almost anyone who grows up in the Western world inherits quite a few prejudices, and it takes a lot of honesty and consciousness to not let them affect your judgment.
I’m trying to get over my assumptions about members of conservative religious groups. And Ayn Rand fans.
I reserve the right to be outraged, though, by individuals who are completely apolitical.
This is one funny as shit post.
As for my prejudices:
I assume that any gumbo or catfish in a restaurant in Massachusetts will be bad. I have never been proven wrong, but can’t help but order them anyway.
I assume that people who speak with very strong Boston North Shore accents are stupid. This can’t possibly be true.
I assume that men with long hair are automatically nice and probably fun to hang out with. Unfortunately this is not always true.
I assume that people who are into sports are assholes. Probably not true, but I try to avoid them, so I don’t know first hand. 
I think people who claim “I don’t have time to read” are stupid.
How can you NOT have time to feed your brain? I don’t care if it’s a newspaper, magazine, book, whatever, everyone should MAKE time to read, dammit! Saying you don’t have time to read is like saying “I don’t have time to take a shower.”