Word: bigot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strident assertion that anyone who argues for the superiority of a distinctive moral insight or way of life is elitist or anti-democratic--and therefore immoral. One must not simply accept another's lifestyle, but celebrate it as just as valid as one's own. Or be branded a bigot...
Once, in 1961, Martin Luther King Jr. told some black college students about the Aristotelian bigot. This bigot, said King, constructed a syllogism: All men are made in the image of God; God, as everyone knows, is not a Negro; therefore, the Negro is not a man. The black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts, and 180,000 other blacks who served in the Civil War, took that syllogism and burned it to ashes...
Rooney denies making the statement about blacks. He says he was talking more about "class," which applies to whites as well. "I'm just furious," he says, "about the notion that I am a racist or a bigot." The Advocate says it made no tape recording of the conversation. But, a spokesman says, "we stand by our reporter 100%, and CBS chose...
...considered "offensive speech," ranging from concerns about the "colored" moving into his old Baltimore neighborhood and "destroying" it to incredulousness at the "Jewish" appearance of someone he knows to be a Christian. But, perhaps more significantly for understanding Mencken's biases, he comes across as an almost unknowing bigot...