bigotry
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“I believe that no, we’re not going to let the ends justify the means, even if the ends may be laudable, like exposing bigotry, because it leads us down a very slippery slope.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Khan Valbuena believes his lived experience as a gay Muslim who has faced bigotry will bring a compassionate perspective to a bench some complain is overrun with old-school tough-on-crime prosecutors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 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
Race plays a major role—indeed, a defining role—in the current system, but not because of what is commonly understood as old-fashioned, hostile bigotry.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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
She had an unceasing faith in humankind’s ability to better itself, to shed irrational bigotries, to come together in the pursuit of the greater good.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2020
But while I do not consider it my duty to tear to tatters the lingering skeletons of the old superstitions and bigotries, yet I rejoice to see them crumbling on every side.
From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper
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