Quote: Phuzzy "Apology accepted and you do come across as a bigot. bigotry is not restricted to race or sexual orientation.
Bigotry
Noun
Intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneselfany circumstances shows both of the above. Do you honestly believe that insults don't affect someone because they are white, straight or successful? Seriously, that is your argument? I find your kind of selective indignation disgusting and disturbing. I'm happy for you that you're comfortable in your ignorance. However I'd prefer not to aid you in spreading it and, as such, will be leaving this discussion here.'"
I am perfectly tolerant of your opinion and your right to have it. I do however reserve the right to judge you on it. Your definition of bigotry and your use of it here is simply a pointless nonsensical rabbit hole where the word loses any meaning at all.
If you call me a bigot for being intolerant of what i see to be bigoted views, then you yourself are a bigot because you are being intolerant of what you want to define as bigoted views. You are hiding behind an utterly nonsensical and circular argument where anyone at any time expressing any opinion which doesnt accept the opposite as equally true is bigoted.
If you cant tell the difference between someone calling Shaun Wane an ape, and some using what is undoubtedly the loaded imagery of comparing an ape to a black man tells us you are being willfully ignorant of the history of that imagery. We know it is willful because you chose that imagery. You deliberately chose that comparison because you know that to refer to a black man as an ape is offensive. You know the history of its use as a racial insult. Thats why you chose it. If you didnt know it, you wouldnt have chosen to compare Shaun Wane being called an ape, to a black man being called an ape. You know all this yet you STILL chose to ignore that imagery and that history and the offense it causes. You want to pretend that Wane being called it is the same because you being right and you being able to say whatever comes in to your head is more important than you offending other people. And that is your right. You are free to think that way. But that will influence peoples opinion of you. It may lead them to believe you to be and describe you as things you dont want to be thought of, or described as.