Originally Posted by
Endus
First, that really isn't true. And second; bigotry is more widespread than some people think. It isn't "almost over", with a few people tucked away in mountain enclaves who still express bigotry. It's a lot of people. But not "pretty much everyone", either.
You're not grasping the definition.
Bigotry isn't recognizing race, or working to correct inequity. Affirmative action, by definition, is not bigotry.
It's thinking less of someone, based on a superficial characteristic. For instance, recognizing that women have, on average, lower upper body strength than men, that isn't sexist. Barring women from being firefighters based on that, however, is. And in a great many cases, the "statistical data" people cite as if the superficial characteristic were the causative factor, ignoring the very obvious socioeconomic factors at play in that same data set, which usually have been confirmed as causative factors; socioeconomics explains almost the entirety of ethnic discrepancies in terms of crime rate, in the US, for instance; when you control for those factors, the racial distinctions more or less disappear.