Each of us has a responsibility to demand facts and to refuse to forward malicious lies and unproven generalities. We have an even greater responsibility to point out the good that comes with the diversity of the human race.
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.
This Passover, with the continued rise of antisemitism, we are reminded that there is yet another scourge that must be eradicated for all of us to truly be free: the tyranny of hate.
On March 19, the Irish tabloid Sunday World published an article by Jenny Claffey, a 32-year-old podcaster who stated she was “obsessed” with the prospect of interviewing an anti-Scientologist.