Have you been ostracizied/discriminated against for being a liberal?

[ChoralScholar]

>> My child has been retaliated against by his teachers/Liberal family in a very conservative, rural school district. It got so bad that I had to pull him out and homeschool him.

Maddy McCall said this in my thread about 'Grease' yesterday. It made me wonder this:

How many of you have been discriminated against or ostracized as a result of being liberal?

Not necessarily griped at, because we ALL get that. Genuinely victimized because you/your family is liberal.

Maddy McCall, please elaborate on your story from yesterday as well; I'd like to hear it.

Post your war stories...

[SeattleGirl]

1. Mostly what happens to me is that Repukes in big pick-up trucks

will get right on my car's rear bumper -- I have two Kerry/Edwards stickers in my rear window. I know they are doing this on purpose, because it usually happens on the freeway, and there is room for them to pass me (and I'm not in the fast lane when this happens). So far, none of them has hit me from behind, thank God, but it still scares me because once I WAS rear-ended by a Ram pick-up (a total accident, not vehicular stalking).

That's not as sever as Maddy's story, and I'm sure other DUers have worse stories also, but getting that close to me on the freakin' freeway is scary. If I had to suddenly slow down because of somthing happening ahead of me, the truck behind me would hit me for sure.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. I live in Brazil. Die of envy, suckas. -nt

[Celeborn Skywalker]

7. Brazil has cons, too

not the fundie, nutjob variety,of course, but still they have a good amount of catholic conservatives.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. Oh yes.

When they show up, I take pleasure in appreciating how rare they are and how seldom they are taken seriously.

There's this one guy that wrote that the sex scandals in the Catholic Church are the result of a deliberate, decades-long seminar infiltration campaign by the homosexuals, with the goal of destroying the Church. I shit you not.

[CatholicEdHead]

13. I also assume feminists are also made scapegoats?

and the big push is to go back as far as you can and "envy" the "good ole Latin Mass days".

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

15. You bet.

And the evils of the Inquisition are exaggerated. I swear I am not making this up.

[barb162]

3. yes but nothing really serious, just dirty looks from neighbor pugs

like you mention to them you're democrat and support some party position and they stop talking as their jaw drops

[FarLeftRage]

4. I was working for big pharma 1988...

I had endure all the crap about evil Liberals are and how much Dukakis was going to lose by to poopy bush in that year's elections.

After about 18 months of silence on politics, I began to make my views known to my co-workers and they wouldn't have any of it.

Of course I worked as a temp for them and when they did the job cuts in 1991, I was let go... even though I did a good job of working for them and could have be hired on permanently.

I was unemployed for 4 years, before I got my current job and that place I once worked for is closing down in 2008... Yes siree!! Karma is a beeotch!!

[MiniMandaRuth]

5. I have had a lot of stuff happen to me...

I had a not very nice note written to me after the election. It was written by a girl, and I think I know who it is. The same girl who's trying to break me a my best friend up.

[ZombieNixon]

6. I've been banned from being in the same venue as Chimpy.

Cheney too, for that matter.

What a loss...:eyes:

[gristy]

8. Nope, not to my knowledge

[Digit]

9. Yes, and ended up being fired

One co-worker would listen to Rush on her radio, and another one put up the joke about flushing two Johns on my computer during the last election. He also put two different articles on my desk...one about Spongebob Squarepants, and the other one about John Edwards' mole.
I was always being hassled.
They fired me for "supposedly" leaving work early one day, but since this was a large corporation and we clocked in and out on our own computers, this would have been impossible to fake.
They refused to look at the batch records and paid me for the hours they "thought" I had worked.

I have been wondering lately if they are regretting their vote for *.

[Burma Jones]

11. Nope, and I'm employed by the USMC

The problem is that when Right Wingers are confronted with tolerance, many of them see it as persecution......

[salin]

12. they have a very warped view of what the word means.

And little knowledge of history. Historical examples: Pogroms in Russia, The Inquisition, The Hallocaust, ethic cleansing in the Balkans, enslavement based on religion/nationality/race...

Not being able to codify your religious beliefs as laws for all others to live by - and to face resistance when your bullying efforts to these ends get to aggressive, is NOT persecution. Not that these things mean anything to the RWingers who repeat the persecution/victim memes they hear on radio, some tv, and from some pulpits.

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. Not me. But I did have someone call my boss and The State of Michigan

to get my appraising license revoked for being a Democrat. I didn't not realize it was against the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice to vote for John Kerry...

...and as for calling my boss, I'm an independent contractor with 24 hour turn around times. The man I work for? An FDR, yellowdog Dem. We laughed about it.

[YankeyMCC]

16. Just an uncomfortable silence when

I asked a tablefull of Bank employees (I was one of them at the time) in a North Carolina restaurant if there were any Dems among them. I didn't ask out of the blue it started as a discussion about the ucoming '04 election. A discussion I didn't start. I know better than that :) but since it got started I wasn't smart enough to stay out.

Then there was the time when I met my new boss who was based out of Charlotte and is a fundamentalist, homeschool his kids, xian. He came up to Boston, saw my car with Kerry stickers and started saying something that began with "That's the trouble with you Democrats...never mind..."

So that didn't exactly give me great confidence in equal treatment and I no longer work for this company because I suspect I was correct though there's no way I could prove it.

[TheMightyFavog]

17. When I was in high school (Rural NE Wisconsin)

We had a librarian who said this of Colin Powell: "I don't want that n***** being president."

I had to keep my support of gay rights under my hat. See back home, it's assumed that if you are a supporter of gay rights, that you yourself must be gay. You don't want to be openly gay in the high school I went to. Your life would be pure hell.

[Sisaruus]

18. Back in the 60s

Some men threatened to beat me up when I was distributing anti-war literature at a public event.

However, I've resided in a blue state for over 50 years. Liberalism (even when it may be just the living-room, Volvo-Republican variety) is the status quo. The Republicans know they have to be pro-choice if they want to get elected to statewide office. I think the likelihood of being ostracized is greater for the right-wing types. Or maybe I've just surrounded myself with good people.