Charming article

, with, in my opinion, a very loose definition of the word "bigotry". Apparently believing in popular misconceptions, in an era when you don't have the technology to easily check your facts, about a group you don't know or understand, makes one a bigot according to some people. I just call it, ignorance, and ignorance which has been corrected by the passage of time, such that he doesn't say this stuff anymore. By this definition, I guess everyone was bigoted before about the 1960's, so it hardly makes sense to judge people based on stuff they said a long time ago before the facts got out. In the early 1800's all white Americans were racist according to this kind of definition, which is a logical fallacy whose name I can't think of, but it's something to do with judging past cultures based on current standards of morality and ethics. If you do that than everyone in the distant past was evil.
For example in the early 1800's it was common for 50-year-old men to marry 15 or 16-year-old girls, maybe even a little younger. Nowadays we call it statutory rape or child abuse, but it was accepted then. Calling all those people perverted based on our current standards seems ludicrous, but that's about how this article seems to me (obviously with different timeframe and different issues).