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The definition of a bigot is someone who is intolerant to differing views. That being the case, perhaps this accusation is better leveled at the people relentlessly driving right-wing opinion off of every major platform.



> The definition of a bigot is someone who is intolerant to differing views.

It's genuinely quite hard to find a post on TD or TD-replacements that doesn't boil down to bigotry. Mocking and attacking their strawmen-of-the-day is basically the entire site.

So yes, I am intolerant - I am intolerant of intolerance. Civil society doesn't only permit this, it requires it. Being anti-bigot doesn't make me a bigot. Thinking so is perverse.


You're absolutely correct, but the hypocrisy will fall on deaf ears at the current point in our timeline. However, I'm confident that history will accurately portray these times as the textbook definition of psychological projection.




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