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Combating Bigotry & Hate
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
In its heyday, this paper was thick and heavy with hard news written and edited by prize-winning journalists.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Imagine what a slap in the face it was to see that Skechers has been financing hate against my religion.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
As we confront a 10-year high in hate crimes, the 1921 destruction of a vibrant and prosperous Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma by a white mob has important lessons for today.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Undoubtedly you were surprised that Mr. Whitaker mentioned this Scientologist was a friend and went on to give his take on some of the issues being grappled with in the film.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
It never ceases to amaze me that some grown adults starve so much for attention that they stoop to grade-school-level gossip just to get some thumbs-ups and fake-internet-points, even if it means engaging in openly demeaning and broadly discriminatory speech. But on my Monday morning, checking social media after a wonderful weekend outdoor with my family, I got a face full of pratty, bigoted nonsense by just such an attention-starved individual.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
At this point, I know I shouldn’t be surprised. But every time it happens, I am. Someone degrades my religion for clickbait.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
A few bigoted individuals have used the pandemic as an excuse to spread hate against Asian Americans. By the same illogic Asians could blame me for the proliferation of gigantic American sodas and refined fast-food carbohydrates ruining people’s health around the world.
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.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Reducing hundreds of thousands of sincere individuals to a sneering allusion at the end of a snide put-down is not journalism, nor is it even writing. It’s propaganda, pure and simple.
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.
