Bigotry is not racism.

Okay people, let's once again consider the differences between racist and racism with bigotry and bigot. Most of what gets labeled as racism today is nothing more than simple bigotry. A racist believes in the superiority or inferiority of one or more races over the other. A bigot is someone that treats a group of people with intolerance or some level of animosity because of what or who they are. A bigot doesn't have to think someone is genetically inferior, a racist does.

Racist and racism have been so grossly misused and abused that they've all but lost their true meaning. They're nothing more than sound bites now. And that's a shame, because when real racists come along we're likely to ignore them until it's too late. It's also a shame that the words have lost all their power with their meaning. Please stop to make the distinction instead of adding to the knee jerk reactionary moralistic outrage bull crap that permeates our national discourse today.

Everyone is bigoted in some way, everyone is fearful of something, the new, the different, change, the loss of control. That's an evolutionary defense mechanism. But God gave us the good grace to rise above our base instincts. Some just more grace than others.