[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
No, it is not. Nor is all bigotry hate.
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I disagree. When one chooses to believe the worst of a group of other people in order to assuage one’s own ego, justify cruelties or opression or exploitation, or take wicked selfish pride, that is definitely hatred. I see you repeatedly building yourself into a frothing rage over the slightest pretext. You use false arguments and pretenses to justify your hate.
[QUOTE=smiling bandit]
I disagree. When one chooses to believe the worst of a group of other people in order to assuage one’s own ego, justify cruelties or opression or exploitation, or take wicked selfish pride, that is definitely hatred. I see you repeatedly building yourself into a frothing rage over the slightest pretext. You use false arguments and pretenses to justify your hate.
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“Bigotry,” in the original sense of the word, simply means stubborn narrowmindedness. As in this classic from Ambrose Bierce’ The Devil’s Dictionary: