How the social bias has affected your interaction in society ?
Yes. I don't trust people in general because look at how many imbeciles trust Donald Trump. He's a modern-day Jim Jones, and it's heartbreaking to see people I've known my whole life passionately drink his Kool-aid.
It doesn't. I am who I am. If society doesn't like it, it's society's problem. Sounds like society has some issues to work on.
I never saw a shred of value in considering the sensitivities of others, to be honest. It interferes with being honest, meeting goals, having clarity of mind, being hygienic about one's social circle, etc. Give me just a small handful of good-natured people over a legion of friends any day.
Okay, so right-wing news outlets can be very good at pushing the idea that people who are irreligious fit into certain labels. This is because they are making content for people of meager intelligence who may only understand one or two traits in people. This causes people to take irreligious people the wrong way, rather than interact with them on a respective basis.
Now, I have been an agnostic for maybe eleven years. I have had some hostile conversations and interactions about religion (mostly with deranged folk in my family who always have a neurotic fit about their impressions), but because I hold the uncertainty of the existence of deities as a necessary conclusion (so that is a "therefore" conclusion, not a "thus" conclusion, "ergo" conclusion, etc.), it has been impossible for people to try to convince me of anything else.
It is called not being retarded, I think atheists and theists should try it.
My tolerance of the amount of gibberish, irrationality and nonsense on this site is wearing thin.
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I have experienced far more sexism than atheism- related bias. And now that I'm working in a hospital, I'm subject to elitism. Tons of doctors will not take a suggestion about patient care from a mid-level like me, but if the same suggestion comes from a doc, suddenly it's a fabulous idea.
That sounds incredibly irritating. Sexism is everywhere, it's like background radiation.
They are probably trying to be conscious of laws pertaining to suggestions in medicine, I wouldn't take it personally.
@DZhukovin thank you for telling me how things work at my job, however I assure you I have far more insight into this topic than you seem to believe. I assure you there are no laws in my state that prohibit an MD from considering and accepting a suggestion from a nurse practitioner. Your comment looks an awful lot like mansplaining and is not welcome or appreciated.
@DZhukovin I see you are engaging in the classic misogynistic tactic of going on the attack when a woman calls you out on your sexist behavior. Calling me immature and resorting to profanity do not change the facts. You minimized my lived experience and acted as though you knew better than I did the events I described from my own job.
Social bias?
I'm a woman, and part Native American, but still pass as Caucasian, so not much bias unless I say something controversial-as I usually do.
@TheMiddleWay What are you talking about? I'm a nonbinary partial transmale, therefore, my label is "other." What do you mean by "alien?" You are starting to make me uneasy and start looking at the "block" button for trolls.
@TheMiddleWay It certainly wasn't me. I guess we women all look alike.
They might not call themselves atheists, but there are huge numbers of non-believers who never go to church, even here in my rural neighborhood. Even among church-goers only a tiny fraction give a damn what your opinions are about religion.
If you trumpet your atheism in a way that demeans believers I imagine you would be met with defensiveness or hostility, but in that case it would be you who was biased, not society. I might even argue with you.
Why you need to know somebody else's business?
I'm assuming your referring to being part of the most dis-trusted minority - atheist.
I have learned to keep my religious beliefs (or non-beliefs in my case) to myself unless the other person admits being an atheist first. I'm self employed and can tell you first hand religious or semi religious people will not trust an atheist.
If you're talking about prejudice against atheists, then I'm fortunate to live in a country where there isn't such a thing, as most people are either the wishy-washy 'you'll go to heaven if you're good' kind of believers or openly atheist and vocally scathing of the pious... In fact, even the wishy-washy believers often chuckle at the 'god-botherers' — that's great! ?