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To: Lane3 who wrote (71954)	6/13/2008 8:00:50 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542009

Lots of people can be intolerant about one thing, while still enjoying what they see as "atypical" examples. That's merely a combination of hypocrisy and bigotry. Quite common, imo. For example, many people are very intolerant (bigoted) politically, yet they may have friends who are not of their political presuasion, but if they do, they generally don't talk about politics. My working definition of bigot: bigot ['big?t] noun a person who constantly and stubbornly holds a particular point of view There is, imo, the hard bigotry of the Klan, and the soft bigotry of people who worry about what society will think if they do such and such with a person of color. Soft bigotry was rampant in my mother's generation. MLK addressed it in his letter from a Birmingham Jail. He preferred the hard bigots, because at least they were obvious.