bigot

Still, I missed the truly misanthropic lead of King’s novella, a sour bigot radicalized to see himself not just as a cog in a machine but as a spoke in a revolution.

“I was called a bigot and a transphobe and such a danger to staff that I was refused unemployment,” she said.

His implication was that New York, dominated by bigots, is a city enraged and polarized.

Progressives treat those who question these ideas as heretics and bigots.

And they certainly don’t want to be made to feel like bigots for raising those concerns.