Word: bigot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Real, Live Bigot," your columnist Jack E. White writes as though he has been granted a special license to hurl hateful epithets that stigmatize good people for life [DIVIDING LINE, Aug. 30]. Indeed, this piece has set us all on a perilous course. Who will have the courage to enter this vital debate? Is a new version of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror upon us--with reputations, rather than heads, falling? D.L. COBURN Dallas...
...Webster's Dictionary a bigot is defined as "a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices." Given that definition, White is correct, even polite, when he refers to David Horowitz as a bigot. Anyone who examines Horowitz's writings over the years will discover a perverse obsession with black people, an obsession for which he has been paid handsomely by right-wingers whose problems with blacks are probably more profound than his. Bashing black people is a lucrative 19th century industry that has survived into the 20th. ISHMAEL REED, PUBLISHER Konch Magazine www.ishmaelreedpub.com Oakland...
...target. The G.O.P. is a party, after all, that owes its post-Barry Goldwater resurgence to opposition to civil rights. And while its leaders from time to time proclaim their belief in racial justice, their pledges have been mostly lip service. They're too genteel for a sheet-wearing bigot like David Duke but all too willing to embrace bigotry if it's dressed in a suit...
...tenure item appeared at the end of the tenth paragraph of Roy's piece, the majority of which focused on an incident between Martin and a Wellesley student. When the student challenged Martin about academic matters, the professor allegedly called the student a "racist" and a "bigot...
...intellectual elite stake out the supposed moral high ground, proclaiming the other side unworthy of attention. The effect is not unlike a version of King-of-the-Mountain, only instead of conquering challengers, those at the peak shame competitors with ugly epithets. Thus, the intelligentsia use words such as "bigot" and "homosexuality morally repugnant. It is not surprising, then, that so few opponents of homosexuality are eager to step into public debate...