I was rooking up some words to make a sirry response to this post by Beth at Brue Star Chronicres, and wanted something simirar to racist with and "L" in it. What did I find? Here is the entry for bigot:
Main Entry: bigot
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: persecutor
Synonyms: bug, crank, diehard, doctrinaire, dogmatist, enthusiast, extremist, fanatic, fideist, fiend, flag-waver, freak, jingoist, maniac, monomaniac, mule, no-neck, nut, opinionated person, partisan, persecutor, pig, puritan, racist, red-neck, relisher, sectarian, segregationist, sexist person, stickler, superpatriot, zealot
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1)
Got that? Being patriotic and waving the flag makes YOU a bigot, as does being an "opinionated person."
One can make a case for red-neck, at times, 150 years ago. But, a red-neck is simply someone whose neck gets sunburn from working out in the sun alot with his/her head bent over, typically on a farm.
But, that is liberalism for you. If they don't like it, they have to make it bad.
this is quite something
Bush: We Will Consider All Proposals to Help Iraq
That’s amazing! I’m actually shocked. That means when leftists call us bigots, they might actually be telling the truth??
I’ll have to let that sink in a minute.
At least according to the thesaurus they are correct. I wonder if we could turn that word into a good one, the way Conservatives turned Liberal into a bad one?