Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Bigot and Anti-Bigot

If the bigot unreasonably and uncritically rejects what is different just because it is different, the anti-bigot unreasonably and uncritically accepts the different just because it is different.  No doubt some conservatives are bigots.  But some liberals are too: they unreasonably and uncritically reject conservatism.  What's more, there are plenty of liberal anti-bigots whose knee-jerk inclusivity makes them useful idiots in the hands of our Islamist enemies. 

It is bad to be a bigot, but it is also bad to be an anti-bigot. Some liberals are bigots and some are anti-bigots.  Some conservatives are bigots but almost none are anti-bigots.  It looks as if conservatives gain the edge in this little comparison.


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