Bigotrism: The misguided belief that one’s politics are primarily determined by
one’s attitudes towards the rights of racial and sexual minorities, and not by
one’s socio-economic circumstances. People who suffer from bigotrism typically make
few useful contributions to public debate, as most of their arguments are based
on appeals to abstract issues that their opponents care very little about in
the first place, such as basic human rights. Bigotrists tend not to realise the political implications of
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs; they underestimate the need to appeal to one’s
financial security before one’s compassion for other people.
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