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CNN Drops Dobbs: To All Those Who Joined Us in the Drop Dobbs Campaign

Janet Murguía | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Lou Dobbs's, Intolerance, Crime, Vigilantes, American, Immigrants, Fair, Resignation, Drop Dobbs, Biased Coverage, Fired-From-Cnn, Distortions, Media Matters, Falsehoods, Latino, Misrepresentations, Disease, Inaccurate, Hate Groups, Pejorative, Nativists, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Immigration Debate, Media News
Janet Murguía

Yesterday's resignation came after thousands of people and organizations pressured CNN to stop Dobbs's biased coverage of our community and the immigration debate.

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Why Is Anti-Gay Violence Soaring in Britain?

Johann Hari | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Homophobia, Equal Rights, Hate Crimes, Intolerance, Gay Rights, Stonewall, World News
Johann Hari

In the past few years, gay people have finally begun to exercise the same rights as their straight siblings, yet there has been a sharp surge in violence against us.

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When God Tells You to Hate

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Religion and Politics, Intolerance, Political Incivility, Rick Warren, HIV/AIDS, Constantine, Old Testament, Ronald Reagan, Christianity, Eighties, Seventies, Home News
Deepak Chopra

The rise of incivility in our time displays behavior that cannot be eradicated. At best it is controlled. Sane, civil people have always been the gatekeepers of mature behavior and the teachers of morality.

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A Canadian Model for the Gulf

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Education, Intolerance, Education Reform, Gulf States, Canada, Uae, Arabs From Canada Returning to Middle East, Canada Arab Migrants, Canadian Arabs, Canada Non-Interference in Middle East, United Arab Emirates Returnees, World News
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Here are educated young Arab men and women with Western upbringings. They look like us and speak like us but are charged with ambition and hope for the future: They are Arabs 2.0.

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Why I Failed As an Atheist

Lauren Cahn | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Holocaust, Bible, Intolerance, Atheism, Anne Frank, Hebrew School, Judaism, The Diary of Anne Frank, Religion, Synagogue, God, Agnostic, Jesus Christ, Are You There God It's Me Margaret, Torah, Dogma, Secular, Religious Intolerance, Atheists, Secular Identity, Religious Dogma, Agnosticism, Bar Mitzvah, Rabbi, Spirituality, Living News
Lauren Cahn

I tried to believe in nothing. And I failed.

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With Passion and Purpose

Jim Lichtman | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: President John F. Kennedy, Immorality, Edward Kennedy, Intolerance, Integrity, Ted Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Politics News
Jim Lichtman

It's curious to reflect on three moments in my life that are marked by the same question: Where were you when Kennedy died?

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Hate Speech

Jim Lichtman | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Jon Meacham, Intolerance, Responsibility, Rush Limbaugh, Rutgers Women’s Basketball, Free Speech, Hitler, Barack Obama, Health Care, Donny Deutsch, Ethics, Don Imus, Nazism, Hate Speech, Glenn Beck, Fox News Channel, Newsweek, Media News
Jim Lichtman

Apparently, executives at Fox do not know the difference between opinion and hate speech.

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Good-Minded People Are Losing Ground to Shouting Race-Baiting Hooligans

Sabria Jawhar | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Islam, Education, Intolerance, Muslims, United Kingdom, Hijab, Sikhs, Town-Hall-Meetings, Hindus, British National Party, Islamaphobia, Religious Freedom, Islamic Extremists, Racism in Politics, Jihad, Saudi Arabia, Jihadism, Racism, Islamic Jihadists, Politics News
Sabria Jawhar

Good-minded people who see a need to teach tolerance and engage in civil discussion are cowed into submission by the shouters.

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Fort Worth Gay Bar Raid No Accident

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Equality, LGBT Issues, Intolerance, Gay Bashing, Police, Police Brutality, Equal Rights, Matthew Shepard, Rainbow Lounge, Boys Don't Cry, Fort Worth-Texas, Lgbt, Texas, Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, Homophobia, Discrimination, Fort Worth, Gay Bars, Politics News
Emma Ruby-Sachs

Stonewall was an expression of power and identity in the face of forced anonymity and oppression. The raid at Fort Worth is a different story altogether.

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An End to Name-Calling?

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Public Schools, Name-Calling, Joseph Lowery, Homosexuality, Obama Joe Lowery, Education, Intolerance, Gay Rights, Cyberbullying, Effects of Bullying, Bullying, Gay, Glsen, Feelings, Emotion, Children, Idiots, Long Island, Emotions, Anger, Kids, Newsday, Sadness, Living News
Joel Schwartzberg

Some will say "No Name-Calling Week" is more accurately called "PC Police Week." After all, an offensive term over the dinner table might be applauded in a rap song.

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Behaving Christ-Like

Carol Hoenig | Posted 02.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Conservative Christians, Religion and Morality, Diversity, America, Barack Obama, Fundamentalists, President Obama, Christ, Jews, Intolerance, Atheism, Obama Inauguration, Islam Tolerance, Barack Obama Inauguration, Tolerance, Religious Tolerance, Religion, Obama Inaugural Address, Obama Inaugural Speech, Muslims, Atheists, Hindus, Living News
Carol Hoenig

When President Barack Obama said in his inaugural address that "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and non-believers", I could...

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Harvey & the Joker: Can There Be a Tie at the Oscars?

Steve Clemons | Posted 01.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Spencer Ackerman, Social Justice, Intolerance, Academy Awards, Oscars, Sean Penn, Heath Ledger, Batman, Gay Issues, Harvey Milk, Harvey Milk Movie, Batman: The Dark Night, Entertainment News
Steve Clemons

Can both Sean Penn and Heath Ledger win? Can we have one Oscar for the Dark Side? and one for the, well, Good Side?

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I Helped Pay for That, Too, Senator McCain

Mary Lyon | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain Hate Filled Campaign, John McCain Attack Ads, John McCain, Intolerance, Mccain Palin Rallies, Obama Half Hour Commercial, Obama Tv Special, Mccain Terrorism, Liberal-Bashing, Obama Terrorism, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, McCain Criticism, Politics News
Mary Lyon

Yes. I helped pay for that extravagant half-hour Obama commercial. I contribute as much as I can afford.

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A New Low: McCain Camp Condones Violent Threats Against Obama

Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Yitzhak Rabin, John McCain, Intolerance, John McCain 2008, Violence, Yitzhak Rabin Assassination, Hate Speech, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Ray Lahood, Politics News
Eric Schmeltzer

John McCain's campaign is defending these kinds of outbursts, saying those like Barack Obama who are bothered "just doesn't understand regular people."

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Intolerance is Back Again

Richard Grenell | Posted 11.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hypocrisy, Religious Right, 1992 Election, Intolerance, 2008 Election, Compassionate Conservative, New York City, Bigotry, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Richard Grenell

The height of hypocrisy is to see the angry left advocate for diversity but to completely become enraged when someone isn't seeing the world the way they do.

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Forget Hockey: Where Does Sarah Palin Stand on Baseball?

Karen Stabiner | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Westbrook Pegler, Baseball, Chicago Cubs, Sarah Palin, Irving Berlin, Yankee Stadium, Newspaper Columnists, Intolerance, Anti-Semite, Ballpark, God Bless America, Israel Baline, Conservative, Anti-Semitic, Politics News
Karen Stabiner

If Westbrook Pegler were alive today, would he join in when we sing "God Bless America" in a ballpark, or would he mutter nasty asides about the religious beliefs of its esteemed composer?

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Anti-Semitism in Islam--Not Decreed By Heaven

Haim Watzman | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Christianity, Religion, Islam, Benny Morris, Intolerance, Antisemitism, Politics News
Haim Watzman

There he goes again--Benny Morris is giving the battle against Islamic anti-Semitism a bad name. But then he's not alone in fray. Nearly every passio...

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Monster: Who Really Killed the Knoxville Unitarians?

RJ Eskow | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Univatian Universalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Christian Right, Knoxville Church Killings, Intolerance, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Religion, Sean Hannity, Dick Morris, Hagee, Pat Robertson, Politics News
RJ Eskow

Who really killed those Unitarians? The economic system that batters people like Jim Adkinson until they snap, then tells them their real enemies are gays and liberals and secular humanists?

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