Daily Archives: Monday, 1 February 2010

The bigot is bad. But we know in the first place not to put our trust in a bigot. A friend who betrays us, by contrast, has exploited the vulnerabilities that are part and parcel of being the object of another’s affection. The appearance of good has been the platform for the so-called friend doing harm to us. This scars us in a way that a racial epithet from a known bigot cannot possibly scar us. Continue reading →