General Discussion

Jewish and Black represent persecuted classes of people. Catholic does not.

"Another Black personality goes MAGA" is not necessarily bigoted. MAGA is a white supremacy political movement, hence any Black person supporting it is newsworthy.

"Another influential Catholic goes MAGA" is not bigoted either. MAGA flies in the face of Catholic teachings, hence any influential Catholic supporting it is newsworthy. It does not play on negative bigoted stereotypes that support and defend real world harm done to a group of people.

“Another black man commits a violent crime” is bigoted, because it plays negative racist stereotypes that support and defend real world harm done to a group of people. Strange that you can't see the difference.

You are working really hard at this. You are not being harmed by the remark about Dowd, nor is anyone else. Trying to fit some imaginary bigotry model detached from any reality onto every situation is a way to dismiss and trivialize actual bigotry.

By the way, all of those people I mentioned themselves say that their religion is relevant to their politics.

"Another prominent Catholic objects to Trump's deportation scheme." Is that bigoted?

How about "Catholic voters support Biden." Bigoted?

Can we ever use the word "Catholic?"