
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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February 25, 2021
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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February 24, 2021
Her life paralleled nearly a century of “givens” in terms of limited opportunities for women, specifically Black women...
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February 23, 2021
It was hailed as “the world’s mightiest spectacle,” “the eighth wonder of the world,” and “history written with...
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February 12, 2021
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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February 4, 2021
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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February 2, 2021
In 1944, a courageous band of artists at the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt cobbled together a play inspired by the...
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January 28, 2021
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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January 21, 2021
No finite definitions for the terms “hate speech” and “disinformation” currently exist under international law. Social...
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January 3, 2021
People are catching on to the fact that the real publicity stuntperson is that individual on the sidelines, complaining shrilly,...
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December 27, 2020
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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December 23, 2020
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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December 19, 2020
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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December 16, 2020
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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December 15, 2020
But something different happened. Neighbors, hearing of the incident on social media, responded in solidarity. Seven-foot-tall...
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December 9, 2020
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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December 1, 2020
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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November 25, 2020
The statistics are disheartening. Hate crimes against Jews are growing at an alarming rate— up 14 percent this past year...
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November 24, 2020
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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November 19, 2020
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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November 11, 2020
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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November 11, 2020
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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November 9, 2020
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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November 5, 2020
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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October 27, 2020
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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September 30, 2020
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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September 22, 2020
Yes, chatty little “everyone-knows” assertions can develop into virulent violent acts of rage with the turn of a page,...
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September 10, 2020
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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September 7, 2020
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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August 26, 2020
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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August 13, 2020
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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