In the past week, Google have redefined the word "bigot"
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They want to be able to say "You're a bigot for being against communism, globalism, and worldwide slavery!"
This is to make religious people = bigots? According to this if you believe in Christianity that considers being gay a sin then you are automatically a bigot, does not matter if you are OK with others being gay and you do not want to take away anything from gays. On the other hand leftists are still bigoted cause they believe all white people are racists, man are toxic and Christians are evil? On a different but related note, does the left think that all Christians do all day is think about how to hurt gay people? My wife and brother in law are practicing Christians and neither think or care about gays.
So TDS is now, by definition, bigotry? Not sure they thought that one through.
The new definition states the person must be "unreasonably attached". In their mind, one can't be unreasonable attached to the belief that "orange man bad".
Just like muh phobias are supposedly "irrational fear," but when pressed they can't say what fears are rational, so in practice any fear is simply phobia. "Irrational" is weasel word and all this is designed to provide rhetorical and political ammunition to leftists, nothing else.
They don't acknowledge TDS as a real thing. They call it "being honest and acknowledging the reality of it."
Its the same smug "reality has a Liberal bias" repackaged so they are never wrong because theirs is the assumed default.
Sadly, they are not even wrong. The word bigot has, as have many others, been stripped of it's meaning and redefined so it can be used as a weapon to shut down dissent.
These desperate changes to dictionary definitions remind me of when the news subs on Reddit refused to cover the pulse shooting
Summed up old: the intolerant towards different opinions. new: someone with strong wrong opinions. bonus points: if they have opinions on the wrong people.
I always thought it meant "a person who won't change his beliefs even when it's demonstrated that they're wrong". This covers "positive" bigotry - "All chinese are great at math" sees chinese fail at math class "Must be mixed-race then" kid demonstrates family is pure bred since before 1900 "Blah blah other excuse" - that's a bigot. Or: "Chimps can't use language" chimps use ASL "They don't swear" they swear "they don't thisnthat" they do thisnthat "But they don't do all their signs exactly like a human, and accommdation isn't scientific" - Chomsky is a bigot.
NOT: "I believe in a god" gods don't exist, bigot or "This city sucks" you're bigoted against it or even "all members of a legit and traditional political party are bigots because they won't join the "correct" party"
would you mind linking a source for the chimp stuff? I've only seen Koko the gorilla, which was pretty clearly a hoax
whasnt that just Robin Williams in drag?
I think I know which you're talking about, but Koko herself wasn't really a hoax; that silly, politicized "speech" was unconscionable, though.
There were also Washoe (and co.), as well as Kanzi (still around; he started with plastic symbols, and more lately started using computer boards starting in the 90s or so - he's the one who was also taught stone knapping).
I guess most of the information got buried, but the best account was done by Eugene Linden (Apes, Men and Language and Silent Partners), both hard books to get a hold of now outside of libraries.
There were MANY more projects that those but those three were the rock stars; I remember Linden describing one colony whose purpose was to teach the adults ASL, and then see if they'd teach their offspring (with no input from the researchers, the apes would be on their own). Turns out, they certainly did teach signs to their kids, but funding was cut in the middle of the experiment, and thanks to donations, they were sent back to Africa. And set loose. Where no one has been bothering to watch them since, I don't think. Yep, it's where Chrichton got the idea for Congo from (he thought gorillas would be more impressive for a story).
It's a very old rabbit hole for me, but I still see stuff around; the studies on wild apes are pretty interesting, though. Did you know savannah apes use spears?
Well, if we're going to quote the dictionary....
By the new definition every person you fail to convert/"deconvert" to your religion/cause/group is a bigot.
Excellent. I'm not obstinately or unreasonably attached to the idea that blacks have low average IQ's, and that this is the primary reason for their problems, but it does seem likely to be a real and considerable factor.
A non-bigoted opinion, as per the latest definition from educated luminaries.
Theres only so far you can go before Occam's Razor becomes fact
So in a nutshell, every leftist is a bigot. Got it.
Yes, I'm a bigot. How did you know?
the one thing Orwell got wrong, dictionaries wont get smaller, theyll get larger due to the extended meanings
This is the very definition of holding an OPINION.
Further encroaching Marxism - YOU are not allowed to have strong beliefs unless the state allows you.
I'm against cannibalism and human sacrifice. I guess that makes me a bigot.
cool, so the majority of Leftists are bigots now, seeing how much they despise those on the Right