Someone doubles down on their racism and somehow it is the fault of the people that call out their racism that is the problem.
When someone doubles down like this around me...I laugh at their ignorance and maybe (very rarely) I will take the time to educate them a little.
I guess we should go back to the era of smiling and nodding despite the unequal treatment.
I don't see any monolithic unequal treatment around today, usually it's just a few ignorant ones here and there.
Likewise, we should accept the idea of attacking people's religious freedom despite many early immigrants to the North American continent came due religious persecution.
I don't see this happening here either. Once in a while, I hear some wacko attacks a Church or Mosque or Synagogue...but there is no consensus to move against any religion.
And while we're a nation where people come here speaking another language, there continues to be attacks on the character of these people; speaking Spanish is a problem, but you don't see these people screaming at people for speaking Italian or Polish.
All the different people groups have had their fair share of abuse.
Yes, the real problem is pushing back against bigotry and those that double down on their bigotry are the true heroes because they're "telling it like it is."
bigot (n.)
1590s, "sanctimonious person, religious hypocrite," from French bigot (12c.), which is of unknown origin. Sense extended 1680s to other than religious opinions.
Earliest French use of the word is as the name of a people apparently in southern Gaul, which led to the theory, now considered doubtful on phonetic grounds, that the word comes from Visigothus. The typical use in Old French seems to have been as a derogatory nickname for Normans, leading to another theory (not universally accepted) that traces it to the Normans' (alleged) frequent use of the Germanic oath bi God. OED dismisses in a three-exclamation-mark fury one fanciful version of the "by god" theory as "absurdly incongruous with facts." At the end, not much is left standing except Spanish bigote "mustache," which also has been proposed as the origin of the word, but not explained, so the chief virtue of that theory is the lack of evidence for or against it.
In support of the "by God" theory the surnames Bigott, Bygott are attested in Normandy and in England from the 11c., and French name-etymology sources (such as Dauzat) explain it as a derogatory name applied by the French to the Normans and representing "by god." The English were known as goddamns 200 years later in Joan of Arc's France, and during World War I Americans serving in France were said to be known as les sommobiches (see
son of a [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]) for their characteristic oaths. But the sense development in bigot would be difficult to explain. According to Donkin, the modern use first appears in French in 16c. This and the earliest English sense, "religious hypocrite," especially a female one, might have been influenced by or confused with
beguine (q.v.) and the words that cluster around it.
bigot | Origin and meaning of bigot by Online Etymology Dictionary
These people have been calling each other derogatory names for centuries, it's nothing new. I don't take any of this personally, because they are simply exposing their own uninformed opinions.
