Hiryuu
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Being intolerant of another's unlawful views and acts does not make a person a bigot. And racism is not lawful in the U.S. presently. Physically attacking a person motivated by their inclusion in a protected class is a violation of the criminal code in my state. Doing any thing that harms them in other ways motivated by their race, national origin, immigration status, sexual orientation, religion, etc. are violations of a multitude of local, state & federal civil statues.People who oppose racism are not bigots. That's stupid. I said what I did about rape to contrast your silly comment about people being intolerant of views being bigots. Debating the dumb is really hard. It's just not something I've been used to.
People who have intolerant views of their opposition are bigots, and race doesn't even have to be a factor. You can debate that all you want, if you want to be a bigot.
In the final analysis, you can be a raging bigot/racist all day long, that is your right and most people won't care UNLESS it motivates you to act and it does my heart good to see all of people out there documenting racists breaking the laws and violating their rights, getting the evidence to the appropriate authrotities and getting the charges filed and the arrest warrants issued. For the longest time in the country, this was not even possible for most black people whose rights were being abused. Add one to the plus side of the use of technology to make the world a better place.
I am using the definition of the word. You are free to suggests it means something it doesn't and I can tolerate that for whatever it is worth. Being a bigot in not restricted to race, so any inference you make regarding race doesn't change the meaning of the word. I am not, and have not been debating any alternate meaning of the word. For all practical purposes, I haven't even said that being a bigot is right or wrong.
If you want to argue the merits of your or anyone else's bigotry, I can still tolerate your desire to, but it's not going to change the meaning of the word.