(n.) The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.
(n.) The practice or tenets of a bigot.
Example Sentences:
(1) For some, Aussie still simply means “white”, a sentiment that itself obscures the mostly forgotten English bigotry against the Irish, Australia’s first other.
(2) It’s a message of division, bigotry and xenophobia.
(3) There is still considerable risk today facing Tionghoa society, although we have learned the lesson of the '98 riots Sibarani Sofian In 1740, bitterness from native Indonesians and the Dutch to the growing wealth of a small portion of Chinese people led to open bigotry against the minority population, most of whom were extremely poor themselves.
(4) The pope’s support of Davis and others objecting to same-sex marriage and actively trying to keep people from marrying will result in more bigotry and discrimination against us, and is at variance with his overall message of inclusiveness.
(5) I'd hope the consensus would be that they were out of order rather than me being castigated for not keeping quiet, or being blamed our host for failing to take the guest's bigotry into account when sending out the invitations.
(6) Bigotry against us is acceptable (and sometimes even politically necessary) for elected officials , candidates for public office , pundits and others to advance their careers – or their television ratings .
(7) Trump’s nomination has been described as a hostile takeover and there was hostility aplenty: a festival of bigotry, rancour and racially charged hatred.
(8) The government released an exposure draft for public consultation; it said it would listen to the views expressed and it was very clear that the overwhelming majority of Australians were concerned that we would see a green light sent to racism and bigotry,” Soutphommasane said.
(9) Just as Muslims around the world have to keep rejecting any twisted interpretation of Islam , all of us have to reject bigotry … Prejudice and discrimination helps [Isis] and it undermines our national security,” he said.
(10) Amid all the warmongering, bigotry and crusading, only one salient fact emerged from the Republican reactions to the Paris attacks: none of the party’s candidates are fit to govern in moments of international crisis.
(11) Hillary Clinton said on Monday that while she does not “know what’s in his heart”, she considers Donald Trump’s attack on a federal judge of Mexican heritage to be “a racist attack” and part of a pattern of bigotry espoused by the presumptive Republican nominee.
(12) Post apartheid South Africa, it's violence, it's bigotry, are all incredibly real for us South Africans.
(13) How apt that terms of bigotry should be riddled with class snobbery.
(14) In 2015, anyone can engage in bigotry against Arab Americans and American Muslims and seemingly get away with it.
(15) As we commemorate this historic anniversary, we recommit ourselves to the long struggle to stamp out bigotry and racism in all their forms,” said the president.
(16) All forms of bigotry need to be treated equally.” Many Muslims were wary of reporting attacks to the police, he said, believing they would be viewed “through the lens of counter-terrorism.
(17) When he first started, he says, he experienced bigotry and racism.
(18) "He was not only able to break the shackles of bigotry and bias and hate, but he did it without internalising the battles he was fighting."
(19) I don't think anyone would want to make it worse by isolating themselves through bigotry.
(20) However, even if the Cardiff text messages in question were not meant for public consumption, The Kick It Out chairman, Lord Ouseley, said he supported action against all cases of prejudice and bigotry.
Persecution
Definition:
(n.) The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship.
(n.) The state or condition of being persecuted.
(n.) A carrying on; prosecution.
Example Sentences:
(1) The UNHCR said in a statement: “International law prescribes that no individual can be returned involuntarily to a country in which he or she has a well-founded fear of persecution.” The Tamil Refugee Council said it had spoken with a relative of one of the asylum seekers on board the vessel from India.
(2) But a former Manus immigration caseworker, Liz Thompson, told Guardian Australia on Tuesday she was aware of at least three cases where asylum seekers on Manus had presented their sexuality as a reason for their persecution during protection interviews since September last year, indicating the department would be well aware there were gay asylum seekers on Manus.
(3) Members of the Ahmadiyya community, an Islamic sect, have faced persecution in other areas of Britain from some other Muslims who do not recognise them as fellow Muslims but Ahmedi said they had not had the same experience in Crawley – proof that it was a tolerant community.
(4) Of UK respondents: 84% agreed that “people should be able to take refuge in other countries to escape war or persecution”.
(5) It’s a very complicated picture, both in terms of how agencies view press freedoms and in terms of Iranian laws.” Iran has long been condemned for its ongoing persecution of journalists, which has been stepped up in recent months.
(6) The UN considers the Rohingya to be one of the world’s most persecuted minorities.
(7) But I think there’s also a huge learning curve for social workers in understanding the massive journeys that people are making and the situation they have come from – the fighting they’ve seen, the discrimination, the persecution.” Join the Social Care Network to read more pieces like this.
(8) • Detainees’ families have suffered further persecution: for example, the wives of Li Heping, Wang Quanzhang, Xie Yang and Xie Yanyi have been subjected to police monitoring and harassment; the children of Li Heping and Wang Quanzhang have been denied enrolment at state schools due to police pressure; and the authorities have put pressure on the landlords of Wang Quanzhang’s and Xie Yanyi’s families to evict them from their homes.
(9) "I do not believe it is acceptable to send people home and expect them to hide their sexuality to avoid persecution," said May.
(10) Nothing should diminish the reality that Eritrean victims of that persecution deserve our solidarity, and need to be supported by all of us who believe that conciliation and concession to regimes such as exists in Eritrea will surely fail.
(11) Najia Bounaim, deputy campaigns director at Amnesty International’s Tunis office, said the arrest was “the latest chilling example of the Egyptian authorities’ systematic persecution of independent human rights defenders.” “We believe she has been arrested for her legitimate human rights work and must be released immediately and unconditionally,” she said.
(12) Sure, he has been doing the chat-show circuit in the US this past week to promote his latest sitcom, Bent (no relation to the Nazi homosexual persecution play – it's an Amanda Peet vehicle in which she may or may not go to bed with her builder).
(13) Asylum seekers take perilous boat journeys with their children because they judge the risk of violence, persecution and death where they are to be greater than the risk of getting on that boat.
(14) The people who were persecuting him and his companions and his sympathizers.
(15) Children who after the war were born into families of previously persecuted people--19 persons.
(16) When Pope Francis came to visit … he didn’t just speak about Christians who were being persecuted,” Obama said.
(17) Habib, who had lived in Australia since 2000, was visiting relatives who are part of the Hazara community, which has been regularly persecuted by the Taliban.
(18) Just over a third said they were persecuted through fear or threats, saying their career was deliberately sabotaged.
(19) The international community must honour the dying wish of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo by taking immediate steps to protect his wife, the poet Liu Xia , who has endured years of government persecution, friends and supporters have said.
(20) Some gifted and canny writers have made a mint by appealing to teenagers’ sense of anguish and victimhood, the notion that they are forever embattled and persecuted by a rotten world run by authoritarian bozos.