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ANTIRELIGIOUS BIGOTRY

ANTI-RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA
If you had a neighbor who constantly spread nasty, malicious rumors about you and your best friends, wouldn’t you pity that person? I mean, what kind of a small-minded, craven individual would expend energy trying to tear down people of good will like that?
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Futrelle’s penned prejudices, moreover, need a rewrite. They are wishy-washy and inconsistently doled out. In a 2013 piece on discrimination, for example, he spotlights Mad Men, the hit TV series set in the 1960s, as an example of the inequality and subservience women were forced into at the time. His object of admiration in the series is a smart, upward climbing character played by another powerful, beloved female entertainer who also happens to be a Scientologist.
MEDIA & ETHICS
I’ve been a South Bay resident for nearly 40 years and subscribed to The Mercury News, but since it and you continue to hit new lows with worthless hate propaganda, naturally I and my friends are cancelling our subscriptions.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Regardless of the form, such scandalmongers pander to some of the baser human traits, the thirst for gossip, rumor and bad news about your neighbor. And I believe even their readers know these publications are of less than no benefit to humankind.
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.