Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 11, 2021
An Open Letter to Daily Beast Bigot Marlow Stern
Undoubtedly you were surprised that Mr. Whitaker mentioned this Scientologist was a friend and went on to give his take on...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 11, 2021
On Hollis Jane Andrews’ Anti-Scientology Discrimination
It never ceases to amaze me that some grown adults starve so much for attention that they stoop to grade-school-level gossip...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 11, 2021
Why Hate Is Hate: One Woman’s 15 Minutes of Fame
At this point, I know I shouldn’t be surprised. But every time it happens, I am. Someone degrades my religion for clickbait.
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 6, 2021
Where the Hate Is Coming From
A few bigoted individuals have used the pandemic as an excuse to spread hate against Asian Americans. By the same illogic...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 5, 2021
Why Bigoted A360 Media Tabloids Should Meet Their End, and Soon
Regardless of the form, such scandalmongers pander to some of the baser human traits, the thirst for gossip, rumor and bad...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 4, 2021
CounterPunch Deals the Gateway Drug to Bigotry
Reducing hundreds of thousands of sincere individuals to a sneering allusion at the end of a snide put-down is not journalism,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
April 23, 2021
Jeffrey Augustine: Anatomy of an Internet Bigot
Just as criminologists have developed profiles of common traits for individuals like serial killers, mass murderers, terrorists,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
April 23, 2021
Why Anti-Asian Hate Has No Place in Our Society
Targeting people, especially strangers at random, to be punished simply because of how they look or where they come from is...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 31, 2021
Reflections on International Day Against Racism
The world recently celebrated United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and I wanted...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 29, 2021
Christianity Is Not Responsible for the Acts of One Insane Man
It’s human nature to want to understand things. Our relentless curiosity is what drives us forward as individuals and as...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 26, 2021
I’m a Scientologist. I’m a humanitarian. The bigotry has got to stop.
I remember when I first became aware many years ago that there was a Wikipedia entry about me. It seemed, back in the burgeoning...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 20, 2021
Salon’s Nicole Karlis Glamorizes Violent, Abusive Practice, Victimizing Minorities
If you disagree with someone’s political, philosophical or religious beliefs, according to Karlis and her sources, you have...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 15, 2021
Remembering New Zealand—How We Can Make Hope Out of Tragedy
The vast majority of people in the world are good. They have their hopes and dreams. They have family and friends whom they...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 12, 2021
A Prayer for Tabloid Hatemonger Emma Parry
May you come to see the people you write about as actual flesh-and-blood beings, with goals, feelings, failings and emotions...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 11, 2021
How Bigotry & Wild Horses Can Both Get Someone Hurt
I grew up around horses. My family raised them, cared for them, rode them, bred them, trained them, bought and sold them....
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 10, 2021
The Very Definition of Prejudice
Here’s how it shakes out: Really nice, friendly, intelligent, helpful, communicative people: 34. The people I was afraid...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 25, 2021
Making Sense of Hate—Why People Don’t Understand You
Whether you knew you were doing it or not, in that explosive conversation you were employing an ancient mode of reasoning...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 24, 2021
How Cicely Tyson Raised the Bar for Us All
Her life paralleled nearly a century of “givens” in terms of limited opportunities for women, specifically Black women...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 23, 2021
Black History Month Marks the Anniversary of “The Birth of a Nation”: Hatred Written With Lightning
It was hailed as “the world’s mightiest spectacle,” “the eighth wonder of the world,” and “history written with...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 12, 2021
The Different Shades of White Supremacy
It can be comforting and comfortable to share the same private snickers and public derisions as one’s friends about everything...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 4, 2021
Civil Rights Icon Hank Aaron: A Tough Out, On and Off the Field
His legacy is a lesson to all of us when faced with the bitter fruit of discrimination, hate and intolerance: Be your own...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 2, 2021
“The Will to Create Is the Same as the Will to Live”—Achieving Immortality Through Holocaust Art
In 1944, a courageous band of artists at the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt cobbled together a play inspired by the...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 28, 2021
Religious Difference in a COVID-19 World
People so often show their true colors during challenging times and, for most people, that means finding ways to succeed in...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 21, 2021
Tackling Online Hate Speech Against Religious Minorities—An Enlightening Hearing By USCIRF
No finite definitions for the terms “hate speech” and “disinformation” currently exist under international law. Social...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 3, 2021
More Than Scientologists Have Had Enough of Leah Remini’s Extremism & Hate
People are catching on to the fact that the real publicity stuntperson is that individual on the sidelines, complaining shrilly,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 27, 2020
Anti-Semitism and the Miss France Beauty Pageant
The “religion” of bigotry—for, make no mistake: it requires a hefty heap of faith to ignore logic and the evidence of...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 23, 2020
While I Helped My Neighbors in a Pandemic, Leah Remini Raged Against That Help
As the proverb goes, when a pickpocket meets a saint, he sees only his pockets. Even as we help the millions in a pandemic,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 19, 2020
How Yashar Ali Hides Behind His Twitter Handle, Spreading Hate
It is the most plain, by-the-book exercise in bigotry you have ever seen. And it’s also the very definition of persecution,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 16, 2020
Why They’re Still Trying to Stop Anne Frank
They know what she sees as she peers out that window. She sees into their hearts as only an innocent can see. “In spite...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 15, 2020
Hatred Turns to Love in the Miracle of North Little Rock
But something different happened. Neighbors, hearing of the incident on social media, responded in solidarity. Seven-foot-tall...
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