What's the Difference between Bigot and Racist?

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.differencebetween.info/difference-between-bigot-and-racist

However, today the term bigot defines someone who is so preoccupied with their prejudices that they begin to treat other people with fear, distrust, hatred, contempt, or intolerance. This mistreatment of people can be on the basis of a person's ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.

The term racist has a similar connotation, however it does differ slightly. A racist is someone whose actions, practices, or beliefs are guided by the belief that humans are divided into races and that some races are better that the others. For example: the belief that whites are better than blacks.

The main difference between racist and bigot is that fact that racism discriminates on the basis of race, whereas a bigot discriminates on the basis of his personal opinion, which can include race, gender, religion or beliefs produced by their own personal life experiences. Hence, it can be said that racism is a particular sunset of bigotry.

[valerief]

1. Racism is when the ruling race oppresses the non-ruling race based on race. nt

[GeorgeGist]

2. I think they mean 'subset' not 'sunset'

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Agreed.

[Scootaloo]

4. Racism is different from racial bigotry

Of course the two are related, but racism is a social system (intentional or not) based on racial bigotry.

[stopbush]

5. All racists are bigots, but not all bigots are racists.

[Hoyt]

6. I'm don't think "racist" applies to hating say LGBTs, but "bigot" does.

[randys1]

7. Simple, anyone can be a bigot, only those who are part of the power can be racists

[uriel1972]

11. As The President of the United States...

Does that mean Barak Obama can be racist whilst me being a disabled pensioner (white) can not?

[randys1]

13. White people still control the institutions of this country, nice try though

[uriel1972]

14. So tell me...

Why is the person who can order nuclear weapons around somehow less powerful than me, because I am white.
Your first statement referred to a power differential, not about the who 'runs' the world.

I am essentially powerless, physically and institutionally and in the other corner is someone who has amassed in comparison a great deal of power. A great differential by your first definition.

Now you have added a qualifier, by which it seems you are saying only white people can be racist. A different definition.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

8. I run into people who hate everyone not JUST LIKE THEM.

Like the woman at the community college I attend who smirks and looks sideways, real smug, about how great the South is, and how lucky we were to be born here, blah blah blah.

Then she talks about how she's doing genealogy research so she can join the Daughters of the American Revolution (or as I call it, "The Over the Hill Mickey Mouse Club".

And she actually uses the word "damnyankee" as an INSULT.

We're only talking about white people here. Since she uses "damnyankee" as an insult, and before I met this woman, I had heard it used laughingly, as a not-real insult, I don't want to know what she thinks of non-whites or Hispanics. They will tell you untiil they are blue in the face about "them Mezzcans, none of 'em wanna learn English, and they're lazy".

I guess Freddie Gauss Junior polled 12 million illegal immigrants, in Spanish, translated and analysed the numbers and came up with that. (((((SARCASM)))))



I think they wish that so-called melting pot of different cultures would go away. They find other ethnic groups annoying by their existence, apparently.

I am not sure what you call those who hate everyone who is not a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (Preferably Baptist or Evangelical) Right wing Republican, flag-waving, patriotic and gun-toting. Probably makes me a Satan worshiper in their eyes since I don't go to church and have no interest in it.

I have names for them but have been told on DU the names are racist and unacceptable.

[CRK7376]

9. Sounds like

a typical NC Republican. They hate everything progressive that helps people, regardless of color, race, religion, sexual orientation......

[Manifestor_of_Light]

10. Same political party, different state.

Yup.

Living their lives in anger and negativity, instead of empathizing with someone else, smiling at the checker at Wal-Mart, and generally realizing that most people have their struggles and problems that they keep to themselves. That we are all wounded in some way, and don't go around telling others about our mental scars.

Like Repubs who never understand a problem until it personally affects them, because they have no empathy or ability to imagine other peoples' problems?

Remember when Snarlin' Arlen Specter was against stem cell research? Then he got cancer, and was cured by stem cell research, and all of a sudden he was in favor of it.

Or the anti-gay Republicans who then have a gay member of their family come out of the closet? Then they might realize that gay people are human beings too. And stop some of their anti-gay rhetoric? Or maybe not.

[Populist_Prole]

12. It's a well known dynamic, aparrently. Check this article out

http://www.alternet.org/books/why-do-so-many-southerners-think-theyre-only-real-americans?paging=off

I run into the same people here. Seems like they have a "circle the wagons" mentality as their perfect world is ever shrinking.