# What unshakable prejudices do you have?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 6, 2006, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351 "2006-07-06T12:25:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/41 "2006-07-06T17:12:02Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#):
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> Introverts-in real life.
Why?
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/42 "2006-07-06T17:23:39Z")
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> The owners of the company I work for (husband, wife, and daughter) all commute to work. Daddy drives a Lamborghini with a V12, Mummy drives a Hummer, and sweetums drives an Escalade. They leave from the same house at the same time, do their ritual motorcade of ostentatious waste, arrive at their destination at the same time, and then…
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> …park in the only three designated handicapped spots, until they do the whole thing in reverse at the end of the day.
I now understand the attractions of Marxism.
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### Author:  [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/43 "2006-07-06T17:24:18Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#):
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> Why?
Many of the introverts I come in contact with IRL are very judgmental of extraverts. They stereotype extraverts as stupid, annoying, shallow, boring, and needy.
The other reason, even if they are nice, I’m just not compatible with introverts. I’m a hardcore extravert, and my life revolves around meeting people, socializing, and people watching. Especially people watching. I don’t understand people who have no interest in others.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/44 "2006-07-06T17:25:32Z")
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> You know that commercial where the gutsy girl pays for “a couple of shirts” for the guy behind her at the dry cleaning drive-through? I’m always a little skeeved out cuz I’m thinking, all you know about him is he is obviously handsome. That can’t be good!
And he has clean shirts. So you know he’s not single.
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/45 "2006-07-06T17:37:50Z")
Understanding that most, if not all of these have no justification, I will say that I look down my nose at:
- Smokers under the age of thirty or so. What exactly possessed you to…you know what? Never mind.
- High-end SUVs with multiple child car seats inside. Just get a van and quit trying to be a “young sexy mom.”
- People who are proud of their ignorance. Prime example: I overheard a white man here in Texas recently saying “ching chong ching chong ching chong” in an attempt to sound like he was speaking Chinese. He amused himself greatly.
- Panhandlers with passages of scripture on their cardboard signs.
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### Author:  [@tashabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tashabot)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/46 "2006-07-06T17:38:17Z")
Wow, I feel a lot of hate for us smokers. However, you’ll never complain about me - I’m super polite when it comes to smoking. I never let my smoke get in anyone’s face, I step outside to smoke when I’m around non-smokers, I always ask if they mind if I smoke around them first, and I keep a portable ashtray with me so that if I’m smoking outside I don’t leave my ashes and butts laying around. It’s courtesy.
Also, I started smoking because I enjoy the taste of tobacco smoke. I, before I started smoking cigarettes, indulged in about a cigar every week or two. I’m fully aware of the health consequences and I promise I won’t sue RJ Reynolds when I develop lung and esophogeal cancer.
I’m automatically prejudiced against anyone who introduces themselves, within ten minutes of meeting me, as “Wiccan.” I used to be Wiccan. I’d hazard that a good half of the people who say they are aren’t, much like half of the people who say they’re Christian really aren’t. If you feel the need to announce to me that you’re Wiccan and wait for me to descriminate against you because that’s what people do to Wiccans, you know, within ten minutes of meeing me, well, sorry, that’s just pathetic. Not all Wiccans do it, but a lot of them do and it drives me nuts.
Then again, I think that goes with any group of people that likes to make people descriminate against them. There are honest to God cases of descrimination, but a lot of it is imagined. I had a friend who was half black who used to cry descrimination every time he was slighted in any way, and he didn’t even look black so I don’t know what the hell his problem was. I don’t like the Mexicans who claim they’re being descriminated against when my town is well over half Hispanic. I don’t like anyone who makes a claim like that when there are people out there actually getting beat up and killed for their belief systems, sexual preferences, race, political beliefs, or cell phone ringers. Oh, wah, they won’t let you wear a pentacle at school. They don’t let anyone wear a cross, either, so it’s not descrimination. You wanna be descriminated against? Go try and push that shit in the Middle East. You’ll have an uzi in your face so fast you wouldn’t even be able to take a shit first. Just be grateful you’re not dead.
Sorry. Rant.
~Tasha
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/47 "2006-07-06T17:41:17Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#):
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> I now understand the attractions of Marxism.
[All praise the Marxist Revolution](http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1315985)
As Marx said–
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> Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/48 "2006-07-06T17:41:21Z")
**Tashabot** , nice stream of rage. You need to start some Pit threads. 🙂
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/49 "2006-07-06T17:42:32Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#):
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> I now understand the attractions of Marxism.
The principal one, of course, being the ability to put those three up against a wall and turn a machine gun on them. 🆒
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### Author:  [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/50 "2006-07-06T17:44:26Z")
People who don’t think much about their prejudices.
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### Author:  [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/51 "2006-07-06T17:46:57Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#):
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> The owners of the company I work for (husband, wife, and daughter) all commute to work. Daddy drives a Lamborghini with a V12, Mummy drives a Hummer, and sweetums drives an Escalade. They leave from the same house at the same time, do their ritual motorcade of ostentatious waste, arrive at their destination at the same time, and then…
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> …park in the only three designated handicapped spots, until they do the whole thing in reverse at the end of the day.
That’s hilarious! I’m using that in a screenplay. It’s the only character development I’d have to do with those characters.
My unshakable prejudice is probably smoking. I don’t really stop being friends with someone but their stock definately drops if they smoke.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/52 "2006-07-06T17:47:35Z")
> [@Mouse\_Maven](#):
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> I’ve seen this commercial. One day I hope that instead of “a couple of shirts”, the clerk will say “a red sequin dress and a pair of opera gloves.”
😛 I wonder if there is a professional code of confidentiality among dry cleaners??
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/53 "2006-07-06T17:49:42Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#):
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> Many of the introverts I come in contact with IRL are very judgmental of extraverts. They stereotype extraverts as stupid, annoying, shallow, boring, and needy.
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> The other reason, even if they are nice, I’m just not compatible with introverts. I’m a hardcore extravert, and my life revolves around meeting people, socializing, and people watching. Especially people watching. I don’t understand people who have no interest in others.
First of all, it’s spelled “extr **o** vert”.
Second, not all of us introverts have no interest in other people, and I certainly don’t stereotype extroverts as being annoying or shallow. My sense of personal and comfort space is rather sharply defined, and if you violate that before I really get to know you, I’m probably not going to think as highly of you. But it’s not because you’re extroverted, it’s because you either have no ability to read social cues or because you don’t care enough about me to respect those cues.
That said, if the conversation is “all about MMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!”, I am going to think you’re a shallow ass. But I think I can say that about most people.
Robin
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### Author:  [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/54 "2006-07-06T17:51:19Z")
I look down on:
Fundamentalists (of all religions, not just Christian ones)
People who don’t drink alcohol or caffeine for religious reasons (though I’m usually OK with them after a while as long as they don’t act like I’m doing something wrong when I drink those things, or preach about how those things are bad)
People who don’t read for pleasure
People who talk about sex in public
People who share details of their sex lives with anyone not directly involved
People who are interested in celebrity gossip
Hummer drivers (of course, they have no taste, otherwise they would know that their vehicles are butt-ugly)
BMW drivers
I’ll explain the BMW drivers one. At my job, you have to show ID at a security gate to drive onto the site. There are two lanes at the entrance I use, and sometimes the lanes run at different speeds for whatever reason. One day, I was in my Pontiac Sunfire in one lane, saw that the other one was moving faster, and decided to move to it. The BMW driver in front of me, who had made no indication of interest in moving to the other lane, barged into it as soon as he (or she, I don’t know) saw that I was getting into the other lane. I had to slam on my brakes to avoid hitting that #%\*! BMW. Ever since then, I’ve been prejudiced against BMWs and the people who drive them.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/55 "2006-07-06T17:51:24Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#):
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> The principal one, of course, being the ability to put those three up against a wall and turn a machine gun on them. 🆒
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> I made a killing on Wall Steet a few years ago…I shot my broker.
~~Marx
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/56 "2006-07-06T17:52:43Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#):
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> But I think I can say that about most people.
That didn’t come across right. It should be “I think that’s true of most people.”
Robin
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### Author:  [@tashabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tashabot)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/57 "2006-07-06T17:54:03Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#):
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> **Tashabot** , nice stream of rage. You need to start some Pit threads. 🙂
Some day. 🙂 I actually rarely get that angry anymore, but when I do, it’s a doozy.
I forgot: Anyone who drives an Escalade. I hate Escalades. And most of the drivers act like they own the road.
Also, most Escalades have those things that protect the brake lights, which makes it really hard to smash 'em with a metal baseball bat cuz they tailgated you home. 😃
~Tasha
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### Author:  [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/58 "2006-07-06T17:57:52Z")
Applesauce. I have an unshakeable prejudice against applesauce.
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### Author:  [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/59 "2006-07-06T17:58:55Z")
A couple more for me:
Morning people (I think they’re not as smart as night people- of course, my academic background is in astronomy, where there are a lot of smart people and very few morning people)
People who act really cheerful at any time of day (they annoy me, and I think they wouldn’t be so cheerful if they weren’t dumb)
People who don’t dislike Mondays
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### Author:  [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-unshakable-prejudices-do-you-have/363351/60 "2006-07-06T18:03:29Z")
I don’t _hate_ them, but I do find them annoying, or possibly amusing.
- Teenage girls who claim to be Wiccan but learned everything they know about their religion from _Mists of Avalon_.
- Teenage boys who claim to be Buddhist but don’t actually follow any of the tenets of the faith.
- People who claim to be vegetarian but eat chicken or fish. Look, I don’t care if it’s technically not meat, that thing was flopping around until you whacked it’s head off.
- Similarly, anyone who uses the term “flexitarian”.
- People who declare they are childfree and then desperately look for any excuse to rant and rave about discrimination. Nobody cares if you want to have children or not.
- Women who smoke while pregnant.
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