bigotry
MEDIA WATCH
WCCB’s Derek James Announces Support of Antireligious Bigotry on the CW
It’s truly remarkable that you would expose yourself on network television as someone who promotes religious bigotry, as you did on the 30th when you mentioned your favorite podcast.
NEWS
13-Year-Old Boy Demands Cancellation of A&E / Remini Hate Show
A teenage boy in India is taking on A&E executives Nancy Dubuc and Paul Buccieri in a grassroots campaign against bigotry, hate and inciting violence. After seeing on-air previews of Leah Remini’s reality TV show that spreads hate about the Church of Scientology, New Delhi teenager Ram Sharma said he was “sick of” Remini’s bigoted rants.
NEWS
A Double Standard at Disney
How can one describe the Disney double standard that reacts instantly to an 11-word tweet but maintains utter silence in the face of 16 hour-long programs linked to more than 500 threats of murder, arson and other violence? Sanctimonious. Hypocritical. Either word serves.
Andrei Silviu Organ Identified as Anonymous Enabler of Hate Blogger Tony Ortega
On August 16, another anonymous source responded to STAND’s call for information on enablers of hate blogger Tony Ortega, revealing the identity of “DodoTheLaser,” the Disqus commenting account employed by Andrei Silviu Organ.
NEWS
Brave Men Give Their Lives to Protect Religious Freedom
Brave Men Give Their Lives to Protect Religious Freedom When Jeremy Christian began harassing two dark-skinned teenage females, one of whom wore a hijab, on a train in Portland, two men who stepped up to defend them did not know they would lose their lives in the process.
NEWS
“Celebrate Diversity Month” Lights Candle in Darkness of Bigotry
As the numbers of hate crimes, and other expressions of intolerance and bigotry continue to rise, and as actions once considered unacceptable have increasingly become the norm a ray of light surfaces each year at the fourth month of the calendar: Celebrate Diversity Month.
Fox News’ Julius Young Forwards Anti-Scientology Bigotry & Extremism
“Quoting Leah Remini on the subject of Scientologists or their religion is no different than quoting a white supremacist about Jews or their faith,” said National STAND Director Bari Berger. “Racism is racism, anti-Semitism is anti-Semitism, Islamophobia is Islamophobia and hate is hate. Young’s ignorant coverage gives a platform to lies and targets Scientologists for their religion. Such discrimination has no place in 2020.”
NEWS
Leah Remini Launches Nazi-like Attack on Jehovah’s Witnesses
Throughout its 12-year reign of terror, the Nazi Party persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses. Members were imprisoned for refusing to swear allegiance to Hitler, salute the swastika, join the Nazi party, or allow their children to join the Hitler Youth.
Life & Style Promotes Anti-Scientology Hate
In its latest issue, tabloid magazine Life & Style defamed the Scientology religion once again, employing stereotypes, debunked myths, and anti-Scientology tropes while publishing bigoted and childish descriptors like “weird” in connection with the global religion.
Marlow Stern Cannot Contain His Virulent Anti-Scientology Bigotry
The Daily Beast, for its part, has published Stern’s profoundly bigoted, one-sided content even while it strains to project an image of commitment to diversity and inclusion—going so far as naming “religion” as a subject it seeks to cover with respect in a PR statement on its website.
