bigotry
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My hope for this country: I very much hope that culturally we cut out a lot of the bigotry that we have here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
“All In the Family” signposted its main character’s irascible bigotry and generation-gap grievances in the first minute by having its main character sing wistfully of a time when “Guys like me we had it made.”
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026
Overall, the show opened our eyes to bigotry and racism while at the same time making us laugh.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
Miller has denied being animated by racism or bigotry.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
Until the mid-1980s, the law made no distinction between crimes motivated by bigotry and crimes motivated by money, passion, or boredom.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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As generations of Jews around the world know better than anyone, nationalism often breeds antisemitism and other bigotries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
Those last two groups are notable because Cohn was himself both Jewish and gay, yet evinced an odd inability to see how the bigotries he cultivated against others like him reflected on himself.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2024
“There is a greater resilience with respect to these kinds of bigotries because of both the destruction of the internet and the the down-sloping direction of civic discourse,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
To Donohue, who is 74, any talk of Satanic influences in the church is more likely to smack of older bigotries, rather than newer, thrilling, conspiracy theories.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2022
They bear no interesting bigotries of the party.
From The Masques of Ottawa by Augustus Bridle
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