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Bigotry is ugly in any form.

The word "bigot" implies an unreasonable and unjustified dislike and/or discrimination against someone that is based on untruths and distortions and ignorance of the true nature of the person...

Hence, describing a lawyer as "bottom-feeding" is not bigotry.

In the same vein, "ambulance-chaser" and "shyster" would not be bigotry.

Simply the truth.

I presume you are a lawyer, as experience has taught me that the bitten dog barks first.

You have my deepest sympathy.

The word "bigot" implies an unreasonable and unjustified dislike and/or discrimination against someone that is based on untruths and distortions and ignorance of the true nature of the person...

Hence, describing a lawyer as "bottom-feeding" is not bigotry.

In the same vein, "ambulance-chaser" and "shyster" would not be bigotry.

Simply the truth.

Your comprehension of bigotry is poor.

Some Irish may be drunks, some Jews may be greedy, some blacks may be lazy, and some lawyers are undoubtedly dishonest ambulance chasers. Which does not mean that you are entitled to condemn an individual member of one of those groups because of the characteristics of SOME. THAT is bigotry, and it is precisely what your statement was.

When you have the slightest shred of a clue about this injured man's past behavior as a lawyer, you may freely criticize it, if the facts justify it.

Until then, you are just demonstrating how no segment of society is immune to bigotry.

Of course, if you think that ALL lawyers are dishonest (or all blacks are lazy) then any moron can disprove that assertion by finding one who isn't. You lose either way.