"That I was being a bigot never occurred to me"

Self-proclaimed 9/11 Republican Cinnamon Stillwell opines on her own one-time anti-Republican bigotry:

I wrote off all Republicans as ignorant, intolerant yahoos. It didn't matter that I knew none personally; it was simply de rigueur to look down on such people. The fact that I was being a bigot never occurred to me, because I was certain that I inhabited the moral high ground.

See related posts here and here.

(Hat tip: Newmark's Door.)