The point is that the days when the bigots in the Conservative Party received official encouragement have gone.
Mr McCain immediately claimed that he had been sleazed to defeat and that Mr Bush was guilty of association with bigots.
Of course, America has always had its bigots, and still does.
The Americans have promised that the perpetrators of the mosque demolition, suspected to be either Kurdish bigots or Baathist provocateurs, will be brought to justice.
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She said when she objected she was "shouted down" by "bigots".
It's remarkably short-sighted to dismiss them as hopeless bigots.
Should we ban intolerant bigots from teaching?
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"The millions of protesters last year in Arab capitals that chanted 'hurriyah, karamah, adala ijtima'iyya' or 'freedom, dignity and social justice' cannot allow for the emotions of bigots to derail their revolution, " he wrote in an opinion piece for CNN.com.
Sure, they have House Republicans who will give up their lives to stop higher taxes, but their cause has suffered in large part because it lacks a figure who speaks for them, someone everyone respects and whom the bigots find hard to refute.
But one thing that is becoming increasingly clear through such work is that all the world's peoples are much more closely related to one another than many nationalists and bigots would have us believe - and an increasing understanding of that fact can only be a good thing.
"Ironically, the article... was actually meant to reiterate that on some occasions my being an Indian Muslim film star is misused by bigots and narrow minded people who have misplaced religious ideologies for small gains... and ironically the same has happened through this article... once again, " he said.
As the immigration debate in the Senate moves into a decisive phase this week, legislators who believe America 's southern border must be secured, the Nation's existing immigration laws enforced and illegal aliens not rewarded with permanent residency and a direct path to citizenship are being sharply criticized and, in some cases, defamed as bigots and xenophobes.
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