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a cage built from the inside that the prisoner mistakes for a view
means the stubborn, intolerant attachment to one's own opinions and prejudices, especially a hostile rejection of those who differ in race, religion, politics, or identity.
from From French 'bigot', a word that arrived in English in the late 1500s for a sanctimonious or hypocritical person, hardening over time into our sense of blind prejudice. The deeper root is a genuine puzzle: the popular tale claims it began as an insult flung at the Normans — supposedly from a defiant 'bi got!' (a Germanic oath, 'by God!') — but scholars treat this as charming folklore rather than fact. The honest answer is that 'bigot' is of uncertain origin, though it likely carried an early flavor of religious zeal and pious posturing before it came to name the closed mind itself.
- root meaning
- From a medieval insult, possibly meaning hypocrite or zealot
- contact cure
- Knowing one person in a hated group reduces prejudice
- brain wiring
- Fear centers fire before conscious thought even starts
- learned habit
- Children show bias mirroring caregivers by age three
- economic cost
- Discrimination drains trillions from global productivity yearly
westboro baptist church — kansas-based hate group that picketed military funerals with anti-lgbtq+ signs, designated a hate group by the fbi
apartheid south africa — 1948-1994 legal system of racial segregation and discrimination in south africa
rwandan genocide — 1994 mass killing where hutu extremists murdered approximately 800,000 tutsis and moderate hutus