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Combating Bigotry & Hate
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
I met a very nice Persian man who was Jewish. His family was driven out of Iran because they were Jewish. Then in America he experienced a great deal of discrimination and bullying because he was from the Middle East.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
I can see it now—Indonesian and American physicists in a catfight over which direction an apple takes when it falls from a tree. Maybe they should vote on it.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Some of the nicest people you know might be Scientologists, but people who weren’t very nice and were kicked out have made many others think we aren’t. I have to live with that and I don’t really like it.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
The demise of the newspaper is forcing many to have to figure out how to set up shop themselves; whether through online outlets, podcasts, or social media. Many of these pioneers are idealistic and determined to present the objective truth in their specialty.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
There is a lie that runs throughout the cultures and countries of Earth that pits “us against them.” This is not a recent phenomenon. It stretches back through history.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
You are an actor with some serious clout. You can open a movie, your co-stars cannot. You can force a re-write, a script revision, a slight edit because producers and studios want to make you happy. You make them money. You are a bankable star.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
How well I remember that morning in 1985 when I awoke to see a piece produced by a local Portland, Oregon TV news show marveling at the fact that Scientologists, like other humans, eat salad.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
By the time I was 13 years old, if someone asked me what I wanted to be or do when I grew up, I would’ve told them: “I want to change the world. I don’t know how yet, I just know that is what I want to do. I want to help people and I want to help this planet.”
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Libel means false accusation. For centuries, a particularly vicious libel has been leveled at Jews: that they sacrificed Christian children and used their blood for religious rituals. That is why it is called a “blood libel.”
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Who doesn't love a good fight? I still remember junior-high cries of "Fight! Fight!" as kids rushed to circle two combatants. But while conflict rivets attention, finding the cause of the conflict is much more useful than watching it.
