I try to avoid the whole set: racism, sexism, homophobia (stupid word), transphobia (ditto), misogyny .... since they all come in one piece, I just use “bigotry.”
I try to avoid the whole set: racism, sexism, homophobia (stupid word), transphobia (ditto), misogyny .... since they all come in one piece, I just use “bigotry.”
Actually, I consider that to be somewhat of a hijacked word as well. Originally it meant intolerance of differing opinion. From Webster:
"obstinate or intolerant devotion to one's own opinions and prejudices : the state of mind of a bigot"
One can still find this, and very similar, in most dictionaries. By which standard many CSJ ideologues would easily qualify. One could be intolerantly and obstinately devote to their own opinions and prejudices as a conservative or liberal, as racist or anti-racist, as Muslim or atheist or Christian or Buddhist.
However, the term "bigotry" is now more often used in public by activists on the left, in reference to the other side, so it's used as if it just meant "racist but even more so". Or perhaps some other -ist. So newer dictionaries, being descriptive rather than prescriptive, tend to include this new usage as well.
So we may need to fall back on "zealotry" or "dogmatism" to partially capture what "bigotry" used to mean.
I try to avoid the whole set: racism, sexism, homophobia (stupid word), transphobia (ditto), misogyny .... since they all come in one piece, I just use “bigotry.”
Actually, I consider that to be somewhat of a hijacked word as well. Originally it meant intolerance of differing opinion. From Webster:
"obstinate or intolerant devotion to one's own opinions and prejudices : the state of mind of a bigot"
One can still find this, and very similar, in most dictionaries. By which standard many CSJ ideologues would easily qualify. One could be intolerantly and obstinately devote to their own opinions and prejudices as a conservative or liberal, as racist or anti-racist, as Muslim or atheist or Christian or Buddhist.
However, the term "bigotry" is now more often used in public by activists on the left, in reference to the other side, so it's used as if it just meant "racist but even more so". Or perhaps some other -ist. So newer dictionaries, being descriptive rather than prescriptive, tend to include this new usage as well.
So we may need to fall back on "zealotry" or "dogmatism" to partially capture what "bigotry" used to mean.