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> It's the inability to accept new viewpoints

No, it's not just that. I don't understand why you're being intentionally obtuse here, other than that the framing helps your viewpoint if you can trick others into accepting it.

Words can have more than one definition. Yours isn't the one I was using, no matter you wish it was otherwise.

Again, since you apparently missed this the first time around, or intentionally ignored it:

> especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (such as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance




"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."




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