From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 28 2002 - 12:06:45 MDT
>From: Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>
>Mike Lorrey wrote:
>>You can be cured of religion. You can't be cured of race (assuming you
>>need to be).
>You can certainly be cured of bigotry. Bigotry is bigotry whether the
>targets of the bigotry "can be cured" or not.
Without opining one way or the other on your implication that Lorrey is a
bigot, I found the following interesting (courtesy of Atomica.com):
WORD HISTORY Bigots may have more in common with God than one might think.
Legend has it that Rollo, the first duke of Normandy, refused to kiss the
foot of the French king Charles III, uttering the phrase bi got, his
borrowing of the assumed Old English equivalent of our expression by God.
Although this story is almost surely apocryphal, it is true that bigot was
used by the French as a term of abuse for the Normans, but not in a
religious sense. Later, however, the word, or very possibly a homonym, was
used abusively in French for the Beguines, members of a Roman Catholic lay
sisterhood. From the 15th century on Old French bigot meant “an excessively
devoted or hypocritical person.” Bigot is first recorded in English in 1598
with the sense “a superstitious hypocrite.”
-Zero
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