I’m preemptively not serving gardeners or lawyers just to stay ahead of the curve.
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remotelove@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, it’s the gays or atheists. Or “colored” people. Or whoever they are told to hate at that moment. This happens more than you know in this day and age:
luthis@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
Gilles_D@feddit.de 11 months ago
I play tennis and don’t serve against gay people. They make me feel funny with their passionate moaning. /s
luthis@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
😂 😂 🤣
MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m swinging back in the other direction and refusing to serve rednecks and people with navy suits and red ties.
elscallr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean… lawyers are pretty terrible. Case in point: most of Congress are lawyers.
sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
hmm. most of lawyers are not in congress. BUT. most lawyers are not to be trusted.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve lived in the deep south for over 40 years in small towns, and have never witnessed a single instance of any minority being denied service at any establishment.
Has anyone reading this actually ever seen that happen in real life?
PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is anecdotal but I have seen this as a gay man living in Ohio. My whole family is from the sticks but I live just outside a major city now. There’s a pizza place back home that my fiance and I can’t go to because they won’t serve him (he is, admittedly, quite fabulous). I can go alone, because I blend in, but him they will just quietly ignore and occasionally glance over to check if he’s gotten the hint yet. No yelling, no epithets, but no service either.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sad to hear these stories, but I did ask for it. I can’t discount your experience because mine is as anecdotal as yours.
I hope these stories are rare though, and I also hope that anyone who does experience any of these kinds of discrimination will put the businesses “on blast” as the kids say by posting their experiences on social media to give them the stink that they deserve.
PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thanks, I didn’t realize it happened either until one day it happened to me. Then it happened again, and again. Not frequent, and not always as tangible as being denied pizza, but little things here and there in the way people look at me and treat me that only started happening after I came out. I have yet to experience any actual violence, but the general vibe is such that I don’t feel comfortable being out and am considering moving to a more friendly state.
aidan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t think that’s homophobia as much as rude staff who ignore people who aren’t assertive. I’m not stereotypically gay/flamboyant but get ignored a lot in restaurants and stores because I’m somewhat quiet when I’m alone.
PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 11 months ago
While I appreciate where you’re coming from, I can assure you that, in this scenario, it was very much a case of homophobia. Unless everyone there grew new personalities at the same time that I came out.
JonVonBasslake@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Nope, what Prussia_X86 said sounds very much like homophobia. They won’t serve his flamboyant fiance because he looks and acts “gay”, and if they knew that Prussia_X86 was gay they wouldn’t serve him either. While not all gays are as flamboyant as that his fiance sounds like, plenty are, and while not all flamboyant men aren’t gay (or even attracted to men among other genders), a good chunk are. There’s a reason a lot of people assume that flamboyant men are gay, and it’s because a lot of them are.
AppaYipYip@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I grew up in FL and was denied service 2 separate times for being mixed race. This occurred in the early 2000s. Both times the restaurants were subtlety segregated and they refused to seat us in either section.
remotelove@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yep. I grew up in the mountains of NC. When I was a kid, the mayor of our town was the head of the local KKK sect. Needless to say, non-white people were generally not found in that town.
Attitudes did change over the following years, so that was nice.
strawberrysocial@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It might be because you aren’t a visible minority that you haven’t witnessed it, you don’t notice it happening because it’s not on your radar that it could happen.
KrapKake@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I am not from the deep south but close enough. I haven’t seen anything like what people online seem to think it’s like around here, it’s overly exaggerated. That’s not to say discrimination doesn’t ever happen, I’m sure there’s pockets here and there. I personally don’t know a single person who is ok with that crap.
CreativeShotgun@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Stay in the cities (50k and up), its the small in-between towns that can get bad. Bigger the better
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No thanks, my town has less than 6000 population, and I can easily afford my mortgage on my house that sits on an acre of land. It’s nice being my own landlord, and I can do whatever the fuck I want here.
explodicle@local106.com 11 months ago
Are people in your town nice to gay colored atheists? The only small town I’ve been to like that is Provincetown, and it’s not particularly cheap.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Some of them yes, some of them no probably. I don’t know very many people here, because I simply don’t give a fuck about going around meeting people.
I would say there is most likely no business in this town that would turn away any minority, because bigotry is widely recognized as being bad for business. Every store or restaurant that I’ve visited had a diverse clientele.
Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Surprised you forgot “people who might be transgender (wE cAn AlWaYs TeLl)”
Cabrio@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Of course they can tell, how else are they going to pick their preferred partners to cheat on their wives with.