Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
Thanks for that. As expected a case study in misuse of language and smug posturing for effect. Go on then, I will bite.

To be clear I do not ‘fear’ Tories - I respect a few but dislike their core values and their policies. Some I despise (along with a few in other parties). My dislike comes from what they do and say and my experience of them over a lifetime - not for the place or culture they were born into.

That is not bigotry.

Your position is once again one where you get offended if someone will not follow your twisted version of ‘even handedness’. You know - flat earthers views as valid as astronomers, white supremacists views as valid as anti racists. That nonsense mixed up with knee jerk defence of the government in any thread where they are challenged or ridiculed is your signature response.

To get away from your distortion of terms like bigotry remember the word that started this was ‘upset’. Many things are upsetting - from A&E waiting times to cup final penalty misses, but upset is certainly justified if someone close to me chooses to adopt a set of political beliefs or cultures that I have spent my life campaigning against.

That may make me intolerant of selfish individualism or Little Englander nationalism - I’ll take that happily. Intolerance is not bigotry.
Defend it all you like, but you justified people being upset over who someone marries based on whether they voted for a centre-right or centre-left party and on that characteristic alone. Not on the basis of their character or a thousand other aspects of their personality.

There's no smugness involved, although I sense the smugness in which you paraded that view may have subsided.

I'm just calling you out and saying, based on your own words, you are almost the dictionary definition of a bigot.