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"A working definition of a bigoted factual claim should be any claim, whether true or not, that is intended to have the effect of inducing disgust or hatred in members of another group."

So true factual statements about the Ku Klux Klan or Nazis are bigoted if they are offered with an intent to evoke disgust?

Isn't it possible that some groups really merit disgust while others do not?

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What bigotry tries to do is to end the discussion there and then. Whether what is said is true or not is immaterial - the objective is to stop further debate, stop further complexity.

"There are a lot of jews in the media industry", "women are not as good at maths as men" - both true (on average!), both often used to end the conversation.

Bigotry is not so much in what you say, but in why you say it, and how.

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