Given the definitions, are we not all bigots?

“English – English translation for “bigotry

The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them

The characteristic qualities of a bigot; intolerance or prejudice, especially religious or racial

The practice or tenets of a bigot the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot

Bigotry is the possession or expression of strong, unreasonable prejudices or opinions.

He deplored religious bigotry. Bigoted behavior or beliefs intolerance of differing ideas and beliefs, prejudice

The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them

The characteristic qualities of a bigot; intolerance or prejudice, especially religious or racial

The intolerance and prejudice of a bigot

Bigotry is the possession or expression of strong, unreasonable prejudices or opinions. He deplored religious bigotry; bigoted behavior or beliefs”

“It's not even coded bigotry anymore

The GOP hits Elena Kagan for admiring Thurgood Marshall and hailing from "Manhattan's Upper West Side"

By Joan Walsh

I'm not entirely sold on Solicitor General Elena Kagan as our newest Supreme Court Justice. Ironically, one of my reservations has to do with her approach to leveling racial discrimination – specifically her reported role in scuttling a Clinton administration plan to do away with sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine (which has meant heavier punishment for African Americans than whites for dealing or using the same drug.)

That said, Republicans on the Senate Judicial Committee are trying to make the case she's outside the mainstream of American jurisprudence, by attacking her clerking for (and admiring) legal giant Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court justice, while singling her out as a denizen of "Manhattan's Upper West Side" – you know, the neighborhood known for Zabar's and bagels and, well, Jews.

Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions of Alabama, who wasn't crazy about Sonia Sotomayor, you'll recall, denounced Kagan having "associated herself with well-known activist judges who have used their power to redefine the meaning of our constitution and have the result of advancing that judge's preferred social policies," and he cited Marshall, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund leader who argued Brown vs. Board of Education. According to Talking Points Memo, Republicans mentioned Marshall an astonishing 35 times in the hearing (compared with 14 mentions of President Obama) with his son, Thurgood Marshall Jr., sitting in the audience.”