: My dictionary says a bigot is someone who is obstinately wedded to
: a particular religious creed, opinion, or practice. Claims of mass, genocidal capitalistic atrocities make for one very fat bride. You can
: call yourselves sweetness and light all you wish but altruism requires
: more than demonizing your enemies.
First, the dictionary stuff, from Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary: "bigot\ n [MF, hypocrite, bigot] : one obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion."
By analogy, could we say that claims that "the Nazis committed genocide in 1941-1945 upon Jews" make Jewish historians bigots? I'm sure the neo-Nazis would love to hear that, but the rest of the world might blanch a bit. What about your claims here? Do they make you a bigot? At any rate, your last criticism of Farinata would seem to apply rather well to you, in your demonization of the Vietnamese. Altruism means more than demonizing your enemies, Stu.
