Who we dislike..a study in American Diversity

So there we were...40 ish people sitting in a field in the Pisgah National Forest.

It was seminar day on an Outward Bound course and we were asked during a Diversity Workshop who we hate. Hate is a strong word. So we all wrote our favored pariahs on a slip of paper and deposited them into a grimy communal cap. The range of answers surprised me...

The Klu Klux Klan (4 votes)

City Folk (1 vote from a Missourite)

Pushy Religous Groups (Two votes, non-specific groups fingered)

Neo Nazis

Militant Palestinians (Kinda came out of left field)

Car Drivers (This one comes from a 20 year old who scorns car licensing and ownership but survives by bumming rides in said deathmobiles of friends)

War Protesters at Funerals for recent KIA soldiers

Anti-Gay Despots

Realists

Rich People (Ironic this one came up, as we had all paid about 5K for the course)

Bohemian Grove (A cult in an American suburb near you)

It was an interesting activity. Venting about who one dislikes can be therapeutic, as does painting up a Jack-o-lantern in a likeness of your mortal enemy, then sticking a Ginzu knife in the pumpkin's 'brain' with an attached post-it proclaiming "You," with a direction-bearing arrow. (There was a Jack Handy quote about this that I borrowed heavily from here).