Technically I did not call him anything, I said the argument itself was bigoted. It's propaganda spread with the intent of perpetuating discrimination and oppression. Am I intolerant towards discrimination and oppression? Yes I am. I've seen too many people suffer in my time to tun a blind eye to it.

It's no different to how I'd react if someone started degrading people due to their race or gender. By standing by and letting it happen, I would be condoning it.

You're playing with words. If I call your opinions stupid, I should just as much get banned as if I called you stupid. Which you are not.

I understand your position. My point of view is more complex imho. Someone may have racist sentiments, but not be racist. This person may not behave racist or behave with discrimination towards people of a race he may not like.

Do you understand that difference?

I am glad that you took the time to reply, it reassures me a lot. Some people cannot stand points of view which differ from their own, I'm glad you're not like that.

Look, I have my personal sexual kinks. I won't share them with you because I know you're probably not interested.

If someone is disgusted by my kinks, why should I be insulted?

I'm also half middle eastern and I get a lot of stupid comments about my racial background. I get comments about being a terrorist and dumb things like that.

Does it bother me, do the words bother me? They do. But if someone was honest to me and told me they just had a difficult time liking arabs or their culture, why should I be upset? The person is being honest.

Bullying is not in the truthfulness alone. It's in the way the idea is delivered. That's why I gave the example I gave you.

Some people bug me about my racial background. They are being honest but it bugs me because of how it's delivered. Another person may approach me differently and just tell me honestly how they feel about something, and they feel like they need to share it with me.

Why should I judge that person? On the contrary they are opening up and being honest about how they feel about me. I would respect that and try to help them understand where I'm coming from as best I can.

I definitely wouldn't call that person a bigot.

We all feel different things and noone is 100% politically correct deep down inside. If anyone says that they are pretending.

A funny line from avenue Q "Everyone's a little bit racist". It's funny but it's kind of true. We all have differences and sometimes feel less cosy about someone or something than political correctness allows. Being rude about it is wrong, but feeling it is something personal and repressing it is just as counter-productive imho.