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bigotry

[big-uh-tree] / ˈbɪg ə tri /


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It’s important that party elders call out bigotry wherever it emerges, including within their ranks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

His bigotry has prompted condemnation on the left and right, including a stinging rebuke on these pages from Karl Rove.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

“My face is all over the internet. They painted me as the criminal. They didn’t even care about the bigotry, they just painted me as the criminal.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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

He spoke about Walter being pulled away from his family in the prime of his life by lies and bigotry.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

The bigotries of virtue are better than the charities of vice.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 by Various


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