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Chitown Kev

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5. IIRC, for a while

Reply to Humanist_Activist (Reply #3)

Fri Nov 13, 2015, 04:22 PM

Nov 2015

the word was simply used in the context of describing anti-Semitism.

Bigots is actually an interesting word with an interesting (and somewhat unknown) word origin.

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Definitions of Racism [View all] Chitown Kev Nov 2015 OP

Look, Kid, it's obvious what you are doing Android3.14 Nov 2015 #1

+1 FLPanhandle Nov 2015 #2

True, but I just find the attempt at redefinition to be absurd, taken to its logical outcome... Humanist_Activist Nov 2015 #3

IIRC, for a while Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #5

Yeah, though the term "Anti-Semitism" is pretty much a special case... Humanist_Activist Nov 2015 #7

LOL, the number of people Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #9

Oh, I've had that lined used on me here on DU. Humanist_Activist Nov 2015 #10

And yet you claim that your definition which isn't the principle definition mythology Nov 2015 #4

I make no such claim. Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #6

Find a new shtick. tabasco Nov 2015 #8

people choose the definitions that support their own views nt msongs Nov 2015 #11

kind of...yes Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #12