For some, a "bigot" is someone who disagrees with them on some matter of human affairs. Some very thoughtful people are being called bigots today, even when their words demonstrate that they have given explicit consideration to arguments that they reject or value less than some might prefer. By the definition above, a bigot blindly and unquestioningly accepts the views taught in school, say, even when presented with arguments to the contrary. Unquestioning support for conventional wisdom, that is, the consensus among academics, writers, entertainment-industry figures, schoolteachers, journalists, and other leading shapers of culture (where such a consensus exists) is a common fount of bigotry. Surveys in recent decades indicate a rough ideological consensus among today's culture-shapers. Due to the persistence of an older conventional wisdom that has been generally discounted by modern conventional wisdom, there are many bigots in the world on both sides of an ideological gulf. Though some individual adherents to both conventions are capable of open-minded, perspicuous deliberation, neither convention is immune to bigotry, though in practice, modern conventionals often pin the label "bigot" on traditional conventionals, and only rarely is this reversed.