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South Asian Film Festival in Goa from Fri (June 27) to Mon (June 30)
At Kala Academy, and ESG, Panaji, Goa
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The following definitions ensure that almost everybody is a bigot. According to
them every hypocrite is a bigot. Faithful followers of all religions that
regard only their own teachings as unquestionably right, are bigots. Every
pious individual who does not follow the cafeteria approach is a bigot. So is a
lout like me who contends that all superstitious views and opinions are
unreasonable.
Perhaps, the only person who would escape that branding is a highly exceptional
postmodernist and moral relativist, assuming that he/she has carefully avoided
being a hypocrite.
Cheers,
Santosh
--- On Sun, 6/29/08, anil desai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> *Bigot*
> Big"ot\, n. [F. bigot a bigot or hypocrite, a name
> once given to the Normans
> in France. Of unknown origin; possibly akin to Sp. bigote a
> whisker; hombre
> de bigote a man of spirit and vigor; cf. It. s-bigottire to
> terrify, to
> appall. Wedgwood and others maintain that bigot is from the
> same source as
> Beguine, Beghard.]
>
> 1. A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite. [Obs.]
>
> 2. A person who regards his own faith and views in matters
> of religion as
> unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to
> or differing from
> them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a
> person who is
> intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in
> politics or
> morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own
> church, party,
> belief, or opinion.
>
> To doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and
> believe. --Macaulay.
>
