Is the Amish being discriminated

Answer 1

There are a signifucant number of peope in communities near the Amish who are hostile to them.Security taxes, and donoy collect Socecurity, as the Amish have an equivalet system. This is true as well of school teachers and public librarians in many states, and it used to be true for Merchant Mariners and Railroad Retirement workers, and is still true of the US Military.

Others complain that the Amish don't pay retail. If one farmer needs something,he comtacts his neighbors and negotiates a massive purchase at a better price.

There ae complaints that horses and buggies break down roads. In fact, the overweight loads of semis crack asphalt down to the sibstructure, and when water penetrates and freezes, that causes most damage to rural roads.

There are complaints that the Amish stink. Well, they don't use deodirant, and they don't have air conditioning, and they sometimes get the "exhaust" from their horses on their feet. And, like the English, some are less clean than others.

Some dislike the Amish because the feel they are better tan the rest of us. This one, though, seems mostly expressed by people tha almost ANYONE would feel better than. The Amish generally are fairly nice people who don't put on airs or gossip. They don't have the "nyah, nyah, I'm saved and you're not" attitude of many fundamentalists.

Any statement made about a group is likely untrue for some membes of that group. Most English have a better opinion of the Amish than they deseve, imagining them to be especially holy people. That's another sticking point among the anti-plain, but the plain sects just consider theselves as ordinary people, and those who deal daily among the Amish generally concur

So yeah, thereis SOME bigotr, but it doesn't rise to the level of hatred of African-Americans, Gypsies, and American Indians, or even the Jewish.