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  Bigotry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bigot is often used as a pejorative term against a person who is obstinately devoted to their prejudices even when these views are challenged or proven to be false.
Forms of bigotry may have a related ideology or world views.
The exact origin of the term is unknown, but may have come from the German bei and gott, or the English by God.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bigotry   (611 words)

  
 Bigotry
The process of bigotry is counterproductive and acts to diminish the accomplishments of humanity and suppress what is known to be true about the world.
Hatred and bigotry have been displayed by a minority of students in my science classes at the college in northwest Montana, where I teach a number of science classes ranging from physical sciences to natural sciences.
Bigotry is like a disease and can spread and infect an entire town, even nations.
www.wolfandwildlifestudies.com /bigotry.php   (2640 words)

  
 Bigotry
Thirdly, a vote against the measure would be a vote against bigotry and discrimination; a vote for the measure would be a vote for bigotry and discrimination.
'Bigotry' according to the dictionary is characterized by intolerance of a creed, belief, or opinion-not disagreement with it.
At the heart of bigotry is an unwillingness to accept the truth that all men are equally sinful and desperately in need of the mercy of God.
www.mckenziestudycenter.org /bible/articles/bigotry.html   (1892 words)

  
 Bigotry Quotes
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.
www.worldofquotes.com /topic/bigotry   (196 words)

  
 On Revising Bigotry (includes commentary on Daniel Pipes, Ibn Warraq and Ibn Rawandi)
Bigotry is an infection of fear or hate, pillaging through the immunities of the heart.
Whether it is the bigotry of fear or hate, the bigotry of the colonizer or colonized, the bigotry of friend or foe, the same ugliness corrupts the scales of the Lord.
The bigotry of the Israeli scholars Koren and Nevo is evident.
www.scholarofthehouse.org /onrebi.html   (2425 words)

  
 Gays, Guns, and Bigotry
Bigotry against gun owners is carefully developed by gun restriction lobbies like Hand Gun Control, Inc. Legal gun sales become "gun trafficking," semiautomatic rifles become "assault weapons," small, economical pistols become "Saturday night specials." And stereotypes of gun owners as ignorant and backwards are encouraged.
I believe it is. That is, while I criticize his bigotry on a social level, I am eager to extend to him political tolerance, as he is ready to extend political tolerance to homosexuals.
Until then, I would be satisfied with a society in which bigotry is restrained to the social level, never manifest in political oppression.
www.freecolorado.com /2000/02/bigotry.html   (1249 words)

  
 Classical Values :: Crazy bigots like me
Identity politics shares this characteristic with bigotry, except that instead of having made up their mind in a negative way about the people in a group, they've made up their mind in a positive, self-affirming way.
Bigotry is, of course, heavily influenced by identity politics, and as Jeff Goldstein and many others have noted, the latter often ends up defining the former.
If, as I and many others suggest, bigotry is often defined by identity politics, and bigotry is then labeled a disease, what that means is that one's political beliefs are by definition subject to the whims of mental health professionals, who are themselves often highly political.
www.classicalvalues.com /archives/003137.html   (1896 words)

  
 Ideas: Rational Bigotry?
I have a hard time terming such bigotry "rational," because it's no more rational than maintaing that Galilean physics must be true even when confronted with the evidence that it doesn't describe the world.
It is not that bigotry is particularly beneficial to the individual or society, which I believe is what some people believe must follow from rationality.
Bigotry is a very handy way for people to keep themselves angry.
daviddfriedman.blogspot.com /2006/02/rational-bigotry.html   (4532 words)

  
 Bigotry, Bigots, Hatred, Racism - The Peace Encyclopedia
Bigotry can be nourished by knowledge of the facts (in combination with certain irrational psychobiological factors, including low self-esteem and obsessive edenism), as well as blissful ignorance.
Bigotry targets groups that are not generally based on "choice" (let's call them "biogroups").
Bigotry is NOT the hatred of ideas, including the hatred of individuals that support certain ideas, especially when those ideas are the basis (or rationalization) of actual bigotry.
peace.heebz.com /bigotry.html   (1188 words)

  
 Bigotry Quotes & Quotations compiled by GIGA
Unwillingness to acknowledge whatever is good in religion foreign to our own has always been a very common trait of human nature; but it seems to me neither generous nor just.
Bigotry murders religion to frighten folks with her ghost.
Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.
www.giga-usa.com /quotes/topics/bigotry_t001.htm   (725 words)

  
 SR.com: Bigotry of left drives Senate fight
But bigotry is bigotry, whether it is racial bigotry, religious bigotry or political bigotry.
Although this was the bigotry of the right, the bigotry of the left has since become pervasive, not just in politics but also in our educational system and in much of the media.
The ideological bigotry of the left is currently holding center stage in the United States Senate, where those who favor one view of judicial nominees argue as if that view justifies preventing senators with other views from voting.
www.spokesmanreview.com /tools/story_pf.asp?ID=70760   (709 words)

  
 Bigotry, Lies and the GOP
To do so would be to legitimize the bigotry that has eaten away at his ability to recognize -- or, at least, respect -- reality.
So it is certainly reasonable to assume that Santorum is motivated not by genuine concern about the spread of polygamy but by his bigotry against lesbians and gays.
When Trent Lott made statements that seemed to suggest a sympathy for the racist bigotries of the 1940s, President Bush and his aides were quick to distance themselves from that senator's sentiments.
www.thenation.com /blogs/thebeat?pid=610   (970 words)

  
 Johnson (TX30) :: Floor Statement :: Condemning Bigotry And Violence Against Arab-Americans, Muslim-Americans, South ...
Hasan, his wife and four daughters are Muslims who emigrated to the United States in 1990, full of the hope and excitement that many new immigrants feel as they begin their lives afresh in America as Americans.
House Resolution 234 condemns bigotry and violence against Arab Americans, Muslim Americans, South Asian Americans, and Sikh Americans at a time when Americans in these communities are facing unprecedented levels of discrimination and abuse.
227 condemned bigotry and violence against Arab-Americans, Muslim-Americans, and South Asian-Americans, and declared that the civil liberties of these and all other Americans should be protected during our efforts to bring the perpetrators and sponsors of the terrorist acts to justice.
www.house.gov /apps/list/speech/tx30_johnson/morenews/CondemningBigotryandViolenceAgainstArabAmericans.html   (6182 words)

  
 Bigotry - A Stitch in Haste Anti-Gay Bigotry Roundup
The European Union condemns the Catholic Church for "bigotry" for its stand on the use of condoms to fight HIV.
The condescension of The New York Liberal bigotry subsists on the oxygen of sanctimony.
They are relying on inherited stereotypes and widely held bigotry embraced by If this isn't bigotry, nothing is. ___.
infofeedtech.com /ifft/bigotry.htm   (469 words)

  
 Commentary: Bigotry—A Threat to Parental Choice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
These restrictions are based on an anti-religious bigotry over a century old and its high time that state constitutions reject a bigoted policy that prevents millions of American children from receiving the best education possible.
While there are many historical and political considerations as to why he viewed Catholics with the suspicion he did, the enduring legacy of his religious bigotry is the severe restrictions on a parent’s right to choose enshrined in many state constitutions throughout this country.
Bigotry is wrong in whichever form it arrives.
www.acton.org /ppolicy/comment/article.php?id=99   (1541 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / Antigay bigotry is tainting the GOP
Gender arrangements, traditional and modern, are a complex issue on which intelligent, honest, and nonbigoted people can disagree.
But there's also a lot of outright, unmistakable hate and bigotry out there, and it must be recognized and confronted.
But he has not explicitly repudiated the bigotry and gay-baiting in his party's ranks.
www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/12/13/antigay_bigotry_is_tainting_the_gop   (721 words)

  
 EPM Resource - Religious Bigotry Rising in America
We are witnessing a rising level of bigotry against people of faith, especially Christians.
According to the May 18th edition of the Washington Times, plans to create a memorial for the family and victims of the Columbine shootings at the Foothill Parks and Recreational District near the high school were scrapped after the "Freedom From Religion Foundation" threatened legal action.
But just as we should be eternally vigilant against racial bigotry, we must also protect the rights of people of faith.
www.epm.org /articles/Religious_Bigotry.html   (1524 words)

  
 Metro Pulse/Gamut/Socially Acceptable Bigotry
If derogatory speech does not rise to the level of bigotry if not accompanied by action—or the threat of action—then it would seem to be OK to announce regularly that one hates all "niggers," "spics," "kikes" or "queers" as long as one doesn't do anything about it, or inspire others to do so.
If it's OK to hate "asshole Republicans" because thoughtful analysis reveals that their views and behavior to be worthy of scorn, then it would seem to be OK to hate all homosexuals, Muslims and tolerance experts, as long as one can make a reasoned and intelligent argument for doing so.
Clearly, the many minorities in Nashville and elsewhere whose lives are daily and cruelly affected by bigotry have it worse than your average golf-playing Republican.
www.metropulse.com /dir_zine/dir_2003/1322/t_gamut.html   (1777 words)

  
 Bigotry - Uncyclopedia
Bigotry is the practice of rubbing one's stomach up against things.
Preferred objects of bigotry include mailboxes, bus shelters, your mom and fl people.
The increasing popularity of bigotry as a competitive sport has led to the creation of a professional leage, the National Bigotry Association or NBA.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Bigotry   (131 words)

  
 AN ACT CONCERNING INTIMIDATION BASED ON BIGOTRY OR BIAS.
This crime is a class C felony punishable by one to 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $10,000, or both.
Because the new crime of intimidation based on bigotry or bias in the first degree is a class C felony, people charged with this crime must show "good cause" to participate in AR.
The committee (1) coordinates federal, state, and local efforts on enforcing bigotry and bias crime laws and programs increasing community awareness, reporting, and combating of these crimes and (2) makes recommendations on training police officers about bigotry and bias crimes.
www.cga.ct.gov /olr/ba2000/2000HB-05710-R010630-BA.htm   (1229 words)

  
 Preachers of Bigotry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
There is now in America more room for bigotry and intolerance to thrive.
Yet in spite of all these efforts, the sticker suggests that the forces of hate, bigotry and intolerance are winning in America too.
People's insecurities are extremely heightened and their capacity to suffer pain, bigotry and injustice is being severely tested.
www.brookings.edu /views/op-ed/fellows/khan20030605.htm   (1451 words)

  
 John Wesley, Sermon 38: A Caution Against Bigotry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
But the term "bigotry," I fear, as frequently as it is used, is almost as little understood as "enthusiasm." It is too strong an attachment to, or fondness for, our own party, opinion, church, and religion.
Therefore he is a bigot who is so fond of any of these, so strongly attached to them, as to forbid any who casts out devils because he differs from himself in any or all these particulars.
Look well if there be any way of" bigotry "in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." In order to examine ourselves thoroughly, let the case be proposed in the strongest manner.
gbgm-umc.org /umhistory/Wesley/sermons/serm-038.stm   (4855 words)

  
 Vista On Current Events - Bigorty is Bigotry, Even When It's Political Bigotry
If your neighbors prevented you from voting in an election because they don't like how they think you will vote would be a grave injustice, but that is exactly what is happening in the Senate with some Senators denying other Senators the right to vote.
For generations, it was racial bigotry which provoked filibusters to prevent the Senate from voting on bills to extend civil rights to fls.
For the most part ideology doesn't play a part in daily judicial decisions, but when the issues are of a political or dognmatic liberal nature liberals can win in the courts where they repeatedly failed at the ballot box.
vista.powerblogs.com /posts/1116614546.shtml   (608 words)

  
 Media Matters - Perkins accused opponents of Bush's judicial picks of anti-Christian bigotry
Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Christian think tank Family Research Council, baselessly accused Democratic senators of opposing President Bush's judicial nominees because of their deeply held Christian beliefs in opposition to abortion rights.
I read some of the stuf PFAA wrote about some of the nominations that the left is so opposed to and in everyone of them, they establish a litmus test, primarily abortion.
It funny to see the party whose presdient has gone out of his way to snatch up more and more powers for his executive branch that were never imagined by the framers, insisting that the Consitution be followed to the letter.
mediamatters.org /items/200504220005   (3107 words)

  
 Charlie Rich Jr. | Musical Bigotry
When I say musical bigotry, I'm talking about those who are intolerant of a particular style of music, or a particular strain of that style.
In fact, I think a lot of the musical bigotry comes from within the industry itself, and is promulgated by the desire for money?
The music industry feels that once you've "undefined" country, blues or rock, their very job could be in peril.
www.charlierichjr.com /controversy/bigotry   (1084 words)

  
 Bigotry
I hope the opinions will stand on their own merits, rather than being considered merely an answer to the ravings of an obsessed detractor.
But because Ames made his libelous claims on the question of religious bigotry, I'll start with that, specifically with the issue of contempt for so-called Fundamentalist Christians in the US.
But to talk about it clearly, we have to have some common understanding about what is Christian and what isn't, for much evil has been and continues to be done by people and institutions that claim to be Christian.
www.jessanderson.org /doc/bigotry.html   (795 words)

  
 SELF-Therapy: Bigotry
Bigotry is an attempt to explain to ourselves
The bigots who make the headlines by murderously acting out their hate are easy to spot.
You are not overcoming your bigotry to help "them" or to make yourself into some "politically correct" person.
www.helpyourselftherapy.com /topics/bigot.html   (720 words)

  
 Abebooks Search Results - Bigotry
This is the story of a self-confessed hard man, a reckless opportunist, who had to confront his own bigotry as he learned to love his disabled son.
In the Southern Empire, the fire of holy war is smouldering and violence is everywhere, fuelled by fundamentalist hatred and bigotry.
Reminiscent of Enid Blyton's spookily magical Enchanted Wood stories, with a touch of Ghostbusters and a sprinkling of William Nicholson thrown in for good measure, Otto and the Flying Twins is a fantastic read with a twisting, turning plot that ensures page-turning intrigue from beginning to end.
www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/kn/Bigotry   (5317 words)

  
 Bigotry and Bible Translation
I have never been able to understand bigotry, and frankly, I would rather not try.
And finally, I must add that I find it interesting that I have had fls claim to me that the KJV is mistranslated so as to promote bigotry.
Whereas this group seems to be saying the KJV has been mistranslated so as to not be bigoted.
www.dtl.org /versions/e-mails/bigotry.htm   (3631 words)

  
 Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights: 2002 Award Winners
In the only award of its kind, a tiny but far-reaching national center for the study of bigotry and human rights today named 10 new books as outstanding in helping shed light on bigotry in America.
Witness is a young adult novel centering on bigotry and mounting tensions in a small Vermont town in the 1920s, conveying what drew some people to the Ku Klux Klan in the turbulent years following World War I, and how others with small but significant acts of courage broke the power of the Klan.
He talked with both the police and the "policed," to conclude that community policing is a contemporary parallel to slave patrols before the Civil War, and the segregated patterns of punitive control under Jim Crow.
www.myerscenter.org /pages/02winners.htm   (1090 words)

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