These "definitions" are TOTALLY WRONG!! For a REAL definition of these terms, go to Merriam-Webster. The "definitions" given here are more from the "Guidebook to Political Correctness" and are NOT very accurate. What they, here, define as "racist" or "racism" is much more the definition of "racial prejudice" or "racial bias".Check out a REAL dictionary to gets REALLY definitions. That which is expressed here is merely "opinion" of what these words mean.

Thanks for clearing these terms up for me, I hear the terms racist and bigot used constantly on the tube and never knew the true definition of either. By the way, I think Ed was right on point, all people have preconceived positive and negative opinions of different types of people based on personal experience and what they have seen in the news.

Just before the comparison between Bigot and Racist the following sentence "Hence, it can be said that racism is a particular sunset of bigotry." left me confused. Is there a typo and 'sunset' should read 'subset'?

One of the examples of racism above uses the Holocaust which I'm assuming is the holocaust against the Jews in the late 1930s and the years during WWII in the 1940s. However, the Holocaust cannot be considered racist as Jews are not a race of people like many people wrongly believe. Unfortunately, trying telling that to Hitler back when he came up with the Nuremberg Laws and then sent his henchmen to come up with "the solution to the Jewish problem." Oh brother, what idiots. Anyhow, Jews were hated not only in Germany but in other countries before, during and since the Jewish Holocaust. What people seem to not accept or recognize is that Jews are Jews because they follow Judaism, a religion not a race, or because their parents and grandparents and so on were. It's the same as saying someone is Catholic because they follow Catholicism. Does anyone consider people who are Catholic to be a race? Jews were and, unfortunately, are still hated by several groups who shall not be named because it's not necessary. Those people who hate Jews or Catholics or Baptists or gays or females or people from Spain or even the United States are bigots. They hate people based on some preconceived ideas about them. Jews have been hated for as long as time because they were successful, held important jobs like in banking (which is ironic since they weren't allowed to work as educators or in other public institutions but they were allowed to work and run banks; they were in charge of approving or denying loans to-you guessed it- people who weren't Jewish! So if you were denied a loan based on your inability to pay it back-a very practical reason I believe-, they then blamed it on the Jews who were money hungry and wanted to keep the money to themselves. What? That's just crazy. Banks want to lend out money so they can charge interest, or use your money; but they have to have some type of measure to know who can or cannot pay a loan back. Geez, wait, they still do that today. Amazing how that works.) and they were hated because they were educated. When things got crappy in a country, city, town, village, it was "it must be the Jews fault. So anyhow, yeah if you hate blacks or Caucasians, then you're racist. If you hate just about any other group, well then you're a bigot. But let's get one thing clear, being Mexican is not a race, being female is not a race, being gay is not a race; therefore, being Jewish is not a race. They're just s group of people who follow the Old Testament, who don't believe that Jesus was God's son, and who just want to practice their religion in peace. Does that sound like a race to you. Didn't think so. Ok, that's it folks.