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The Most Pervasive Bigotry Isn’t What You Think

Political Bigot – a person who is intolerant of people with different political opinions than their own. Politics is too often a competition between bigots or, at least, is swift to make people bigots who think they are fighting bigots when they are simply fighting over honest disagreements. It’s almost as if bigotry (as well as hypocrisy) is a virtue in politics, that political power turns us contemptuous and resentful towards one another. […]