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"
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
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