Media & Ethics
August 28, 2019
A&E: When You Pay for Hate Speech That’s Exactly What You Get
It’s obvious why journalists are wary of those who offer to trade information for profit— such people are all too likely...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
July 4, 2019
The Aftermath of the “Aftermath”
Most people are decent: They are constructive, creative, welcoming and social…
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 9, 2019
Tolerance for Intolerance: Burning Down Your Own House
Like setting your neighbor’s apartment on fire, it worked; but as historian Dan Carlin points out in his Blueprint for Armageddon...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 6, 2019
The Bite-The-Hand-That-Feeds-You Syndrome
“If a man’s religion does not make him averse to sin, sin will make him averse to religion.”
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 19, 2018
Leah Remini vs. Everyone: Welcome to the Dark Ages
A recent spate of hate-inspired fires in five Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Halls brings up a pointed question: Is Leah Remini...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 6, 2018
Never Let the Fox Guard the Chicken Coop
Why else would someone go so far down the road of attacking groups that have clearly demonstrated over and over again that...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
November 19, 2018
My Friend, the Jehovah’s Witness
He started bringing new people by and introducing them. I joked with him that he was training new people and I must be an...
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Media & Ethics
October 17, 2018
Walt Disney Would be Appalled that the Company he Founded is Inciting Religious Hate
If Walt were alive today there’s no question Remini’s show would never exist on one of his networks.
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
October 10, 2018
Leah Remini—the TV Personality Who Makes Disney’s Biggest Villains Look Like Tinkerbell!
Just like in any Disney movie, the villain always loses in the end, winding up with egg on his or her face. Visibly, this...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 14, 2018
Disney’s Latest Family Value: Hate
How Disney feels comfortable coming down on that side of the fence is beyond me. Apparently, their real values are not family...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 14, 2018
Disney & Remini: You Picked a Bad Time to Be Haters
Out of touch. That’s how haters like Leah Remini can be described. Like all bigots and bullies, she is even proud of being...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 5, 2018
An Open Letter to the Executives of Disney and A&E
I have been a structural and specialty contractor for almost half a century and have helped build several of the very Disney...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 5, 2018
Why I Know Walt Disney Would Be Ashamed
I remember two things about Walt: one was that he was really tall and the other was that he was the kindest man I had ever...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 3, 2018
Disney: Oh, the Hypocrisy!
It’s almost like Disney wants to attack my religion. I mean, it claims to uphold “values of inclusion, tolerance, and...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 3, 2018
Remini: Methinks Thou Doth Protest Too Much
Think for yourself. And trust your “thou-dost-protest-too-much” alarm when it goes off.
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 1, 2018
To Remini, Rinder, et al: Don’t Be a Leech
Why would anyone devote their life to tearing someone else down? In the last 45 years I’ve seen such people pop up occasionally,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 1, 2018
Disney & Remini: A “Tangled” Story of Lies and Doublespeak
Even the cynical staff at Disney and A&E would recognize that they had gone too far if Remini attacked their church, their...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 25, 2018
From Bambi to Bigotry: Disney’s Steep Fall
My sons were raised on Disney. We watched movies like Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Toy Story, over and over and...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 21, 2018
What Is It That Bigots Hate? That You Communicate.
When you look at bigotry (or more succinctly “hate”) as one person’s desire to ensure the target of the bigotry stops...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 1, 2018
Disney: It Was Dopey All Along
Things looked rosy at the Disney Studio in 1938. Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs was boffo at the box office, and a new star...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
July 24, 2018
Leah Remini Dies and Goes to… ?
“Wait!!” Remini shouted. “Not THAT! Anything but THAT!! I’ll take fire and brimstone instead! Please! Mercy!”
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 1, 2018
Remini: Taking Bigotry on the Road
According to recent Hollywood reports, with her show’s viewership numbers doing a nose dive into a parity with “Joanie...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
October 31, 2017
When “the Victim” is the Bully
I’m “a big kid.” That is to say, I’m an adult. I’m well-educated, reasonably affluent, and able to hold my own in...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
October 14, 2017
A&E Attacks Religions. Yours Could Be Next.
Where does A&E CEO Nancy Dubuc draw the line for hate-based propaganda on their network? Apparently nowhere. The financial...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
October 10, 2017
Of Bigots and Bullies
It’s bad enough when adults turn a blind eye to bullying, it’s disgraceful when they encourage it, and it’s criminal...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 28, 2017
An Open Letter from a Scientologist & Black Man to Tampa Bay Times Bigots
You see, I understand I am just another “nigger,” and you know what is best for me. You deem yourself my Master. You are...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 25, 2017
Leah Remini’s Love of Hate
Leah found something that she could do really well (hate) AND make a lot of money at the same time.
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 16, 2017
Apostates: My Personal Encounters
Using apostates to spread religious intolerance is not a new tactic, but in the age of the internet and life-as-entertainment,...
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Scientology Religion
August 10, 2017
Why Leah Remini is Only Worth Pitying
One of the first things one learns about when studying Scientology is the definition of an overt act. An overt act is an act...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
July 23, 2017
Does Walgreens Want People to Hate?
Walgreens is a sponsor of an A&E show featuring previously unemployed actress Leah Remini and other former members of the...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
July 5, 2017
The Power of a Well-Told Story
The other day, I read an online article that spoke of how an animation studio’s approach to storytelling was repurposed...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 28, 2017
A Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing
I don’t know Leah. I didn’t know Leah. I have no interest in ever knowing Leah. But we share many connections, and friends,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 27, 2017
Et tu, Stacey Carosi?
In one of my favorite seasons of Saved by the Bell, Zack Morris developed a summer relationship with Stacey Carosi, a tough,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 4, 2017
When Belief is a Crime
In a May meeting with the Turkish prime minister, President Trump made a special appeal for the release of Andrew Brunson....
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 16, 2017
Today’s “Journalism”—Now That’s Entertainment
Who cares if Brian Williams is a stone cold liar? Do we really care about honest journalism? It’s boring to watch all these...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 9, 2017
The Urban Redneck
There is no other way to put this: If you believe and repeat the corporate-owned media narrative on Scientology (and pretty...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
April 26, 2017
Leah Remini and a Friender Bender
I was always looking for “my” religion. Since I was a little girl. My parents didn’t follow any one faith and allowed...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
April 23, 2017
Stale Bread: The Aftermath
I am not prone to drama. However, having lived in Los Angeles for 30 years, I am very familiar with it. I try to keep myself...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 21, 2017
Car Crashes and Nut Jobs
I have some non-Scientologist friends who will hit me up when some new “exposé” rehashes ancient disproven allegations...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 13, 2017
Unfriended
I’ve been friends with this guy for more than ten years. We hit it off pretty immediately and have stayed in touch through...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 7, 2017
An Inside Look at Fighting Televised Bigotry
Craig Reisdorf was the victim of a cheap reality TV show made by A&E, Mike Rinder and Leah Remini. They questioned his right...
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Religious Freedom
February 10, 2017
My Scientology
I don’t need to know much about the guy who threatened Scientologists in a recent post on Facebook.
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 16, 2017
Get An Honest Day Job, Leah Remini
A&E has stooped to a new low with their religion-bashing show with Leah Remini .
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 12, 2017
Anti-Religious Hate Crimes Should Be No Smirking Matter for A&E, Leah Remini and Mike Rinder
An A&E series produced by Slauson Productions allowing avowed anti-Scientologists Leah Remini and Mike Rinder to smirk and...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 10, 2017
It’s a Wonderful Life
Every Christmas I watch It’s a Wonderful Life with my family. It’s become a holiday tradition. Ninety-four percent of...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 18, 2016
Hate Speech a Burning Issue with Remini A&E Series
On December 15, 2015, a hate crime was committed against our Church of Scientology and Scientologists in Austin. A 31-year-old...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 1, 2016
Southern California Police Launch Efforts to Deter Hate Crimes
When mosques in Southern California received handwritten letters over the Thanksgiving weekend that threatened genocide of...
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