BIGOTRY

Scientology Made Me a Better Dad—But You Wouldn’t Know It If You Believed the Bigots

In those circles I’ve come under coordinated, continual and entirely unreasonable attack from people who have never met me or my children.

“All Are Responsible. All Must Act.”—UN Targets Hate Speech as Public Enemy Number One

The United Nations, responding to the alarming rise in hate speech internationally, proclaimed June 18, 2022 as the first annual International Day for Countering Hate Speech.

The Man Behind the Interfaith Solidarity March: An Optimist and Friend to All Faiths

“These international marches are not just ‘feel good’ events. This does matter and this does have the ability to bring peace and dissolve bigotry by extending understanding.”

What Being a Mother Is All About: Making a Better World

I encourage others—through their own actions and those they teach their children—to do the same: rid the world of hate and bigotry.

I Don’t Like That Man

This is the way of all prejudice. The attacker conjures up his own demons, and then projects them onto some undeserving class of his fellows, inviting others to join the fictional fray.

After 75 Years, Jackie Robinson Still Shows Us We Can Do Better, In Spite of Ourselves

On April 15, 1947—75 years ago this week—a Black man stepped onto a major league baseball diamond and into history.

The Sin Of Cain: Why Hatred Is Its Own Punishment

Unlike the bigot, you and I always have a choice.

Tolerance: Why You Should Acknowledge What You Don’t Know

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.

The Critic and His “Standards”—My Take on Antireligious Bigotry

Those people who can actually do things, do them. It’s only the people who can’t do things who talk about it.

The Divide Between Bigotry & Reason

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.

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