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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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 9, 2020
Justice: A Lesson I’ve Learned in Scientology
No one deserves that. Yet the world is full of such conflicts. What can we do about it? Personal justice starts with each...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 1, 2020
Why Can’t I Be A Scientologist?
I gave her a polite reply, but I realized she succeeded in making me feel slightly ashamed for asking her. I realized at that...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
November 25, 2020
Why We Must All Do Something About Anti-Semitism
The statistics are disheartening. Hate crimes against Jews are growing at an alarming rate— up 14 percent this past year...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
November 24, 2020
Three Legacies of Discrimination—Hate Crime in the U.S.
Groups or individuals on the receiving end of such attacks have a duty, not just a right, to make the truth about themselves...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
November 19, 2020
Your Company’s Role in Eradicating Hate
Board rooms around the globe, but particularly here in the U.S., must heed well the calls of diversity, equity and inclusion....
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
November 11, 2020
Can Casual Bigotry End Lives?
Recently a 17-year-old white woman was discovered to be planning a copycat mass murder of Black congregants who attended Bethel...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
November 11, 2020
What Anti-Semitism Has to Do With All of Us
The Institute for Jewish Policy Research compiled a recent report based on an EU survey of more than 2,700 Jewish Europeans...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
November 9, 2020
Do You Have an Obligation To Protect All Our Freedoms?
Don’t be an accomplice. At the very least, step away. Even better, write a letter. Tell the editor what the freedoms above...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
November 5, 2020
The Tree of Life—Two Years Later
Genesis tells us there were two trees in Eden: the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life. Whereas Adam and Eve were punished...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
October 27, 2020
Oregon Does Not Endorse Leah Remini
When I see a platform given to a person whose stock in trade has become slander and libel of religion, I get concerned. I’ll...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 30, 2020
Sufjan Stevens Brands Himself a Hypocrite With Offensive Antireligious Comment
I’m done allowing my church—my friends, my family, my community—to be the punch line, or the recipient of hate speech...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 22, 2020
“Educated” Hate—Like That of NY Times’ Amanda Hess
Yes, chatty little “everyone-knows” assertions can develop into virulent violent acts of rage with the turn of a page,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 10, 2020
Leah Remini Exposed by Anti-Scientology Guru
If you won’t believe the Church of Scientology when it says Leah Remini is lying, perhaps you’ll believe Marty Rathbun,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 7, 2020
Get With It, America—a Teenager’s Appeal for Religious Tolerance
With everything going on in the world right now, it is time to change. It is time to stop condoning discrimination of any...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 26, 2020
Why Would Anyone Attack Scientology?
When I first got involved with Scientology, I had to wade through misinformation to really understand what it was and what...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 13, 2020
Disney: It’s Time to Pull the Plug on A&E
The loss in viewership, attributed to A&E’s cancellation of its police show, Live PD, exposed a suppurating inoperable tumor...
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