Is it normal i feel bad for racists/prejudiced people...
I guess I don't want to live life hating people back for hating me; not that anyone has ever been openly prejudiced to me. But I figure....Someone who is prejudice would probably feel the urge to leave every time someone different comes by... To get angry, to say something, or act out. If they ever had a moment where they thought "Wow, I was having a good time until so and so came into the room" then I think of it as a disorder...To have a casual event affect them that much...
I feel that they don't realize it actually makes it miserable being themselves. Maybe someone of a certain group mistreated them...But then still, they should recognize that every single person deals with hate and they might as well ignore it then join. Not that I'm perfect.... I had an experience a couple months ago where a guy got up and left both times I had come into the same room despite him looking busy. He immediately stopped what he was doing and looked at me as he left. I scolded myself, turned it the other way around---Just because he was different than me, he can't get up and leave a room without me assuming? I'm self-conscious too, even if he was the same race I'm sure I would still wonder if he at least heard anything bad about me or prejudiced in another way...I'm paranoid, I could save that for another question here because that's weird. Anyway, it was that same event that made me realize that I felt more sorry for him than offended if it was true. I shrugged it off, but I've seen him around and noticed that he works alone or with men who look like him...Maybe he's sexist, because I'm a female...Maybe he finds me too sexy...Now I question my misplaced inflated ego, I'll save that for another post....