Bigot

Please people use the word bigot correctly. Progressives are as often bigoted as the far right. Dr Johnson's dictionary defines a bigot as "a person whose opinions are blindly attached to a party or creed". The definition adds that they are "ignorant of other men's opinions, and obstinately prejudiced against them".

In the early 17th century English adopted the word from French to mean a religious hypocrite. The meaning expanded to include anyone who is closed minded and stubbornly attached to a particular system of beliefs, often mistaken ones. Like Disraeli's Mr Kremlin, who had only one idea and that was wrong. 

The definition has recently been widened by progressives to provide backing for the anti-discrimination obsession of our age. It is useful for them because people can sue you if you call them a racist or antisemite and you can't prove it, but bigot implies those sort of things while being vague way.  The new meaning of bigot is a neologism and to be avoided. 

“One who is unreasonably and blindly attached to a particular creed, church, or party: one who is intolerant of opinions which differ from his own” (Webster’s New Peerless Dictionary, 1954). 

“A person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices, especially: one who regards or treats the members of a group (such as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online, 2024).