AUTHOR
Rodger Clark
Contractor, history buff, compulsive learner, currently in recovery from authoritarian education.
HATE WATCH
Why bother explaining the sleaze factor of his article to Sam? It would be like pointing out the health risks of rotting meat to a buzzard.
HATE WATCH
The bigots of Sin City have taken great umbrage that some residents might not be sitting in front of a slot machine.
HATE WATCH
This is the trait you will see consistently with individuals who rage against Scientology.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Anywhere the freedom of a person or a people has been lost, at any time, it’s because they were not alert and did not fight back.
TOLERANCE
The truth is, maybe you and I don’t know all about it. And the next time we think we do, let’s take a good, hard look instead.
ANTI-RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA
Those people who can actually do things, do them. It’s only the people who can’t do things who talk about it.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Anything which not only teaches people to question existing authorities but how to do it and teaches them how to think for themselves will be characterized as “dangerous” by people who don’t like being questioned. It’s pretty simple really, and it’s been a historical fact.
ANTI-RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA
These days people sling the term “brainwashing” around like a Frisbee at a park or more aptly, like the fists, rocks, bricks and bullets which fly when some attempt at a rational discussion devolves into selfishness, hatred and bigotry.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Just as criminologists have developed profiles of common traits for individuals like serial killers, mass murderers, terrorists, and the like, it would be an interesting exercise to develop a profile for ranting, raving bigots who infest the internet fringe.
ANTI-RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA
Just as bullies only pick on people whom it seems safe to bully, bigots only practice bigotry on minority groups—the ones it’s “safe” to hate. It doesn’t make being a bigot okay, but it does show what and who they really are.
