For our semantics and technicality lover: Bigotry):

Comment #5

reddog — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 01:07:00 GMT

Reminds me of more than one. There are a lot of low information people out there who are soooo blinded by the Obama thing. Five years ago I thought okay they are blind. Now, with what they know now AND still support that a$$hole,,,, I think they are pitiful.

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emilyg — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:30:58 GMT

Oh yes - reminds me of someone.

Comment #3

CARBOB — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:00:43 GMT

@jarasan There are some people who are educated, but still ignorant. Look at all of Obama's supporters. Some of them are highly educated, but still support his ignorance.

Comment #2

jarasan — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 05:52:49 GMT

Idiot bigot troll is more like it. The bigot barker is a droll, fetid, uneducated, and ignorant troll.

Comment #1

sully16 — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 03:33:27 GMT

Thanks Maddog, yep, it sure does.

Original Blog Entry: For our semantics and technicality lover: Bigotry):

MADDOG10 — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 03:04:54 GMT

For our semantics and technicality lover:

Bigotry

Okay, so the original definition of this word was To be a religious hypocrite and first appeared in England around the same time Measure for Measure was written. Thanks to the hilarity of politics, it's gotten a much wider meaning over time, as seen above.

And it's also a favorite word of the OTC, but here's the question, has the word been used so much as to lose all meaning? It's basically means to say This person is incredibly stubborn and unjustified in his or her position as to not accept views remotely different from his or her own .

Here's the catch, no one ever thinks I'm wrong , even when doing something wrong. It's usually justified in some sort of manner, down to stealing the cookie out of the jar. So let's say you're liberal, open minded person. Do you feel even a slight bit of disdain or negative disposition for those who are closed minded about something, anything? Congrats, you're a bigot because you consider your open mindedness superior to their close mindedness and are prejudice for considering that view to be of less value.

In essence, calling someone a bigot means that you too are a bigot. That makes me a bigot. By extension, calling someone close minded is being close minded yourself. That similarly makes me close minded.

Thoughts?

Does it remind you of someone.?

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