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Hell Yes, I’m Intolerant.
Joanna Schroeder thinks your willingness to tolerate racism, sexism and homophobia is bullish*t. – The other day on Facebook a friend of mine shared his thoughts on the Coca Cola ad set to the song...
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The New Rules of Tolerance: You Can Hate, But You Can’t Lead
Understanding that the law treats corporations as people puts Brendan Eich’s ouster from Mozilla in perspective: It’s not personal—it’s just business. ___ That kid’s name was Moe Greene, and the city...
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What Do ALS and Ferguson Have in Common? The ‘Reverse the Hate’ Challenge
‘Sleepy Hollow’ star Orlando Jones co-opts the Ice Bucket Challenge to reverse the hate resulting from Ferguson. ___ ALS launched its Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness of—and funds to cure—a...
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Being Bisexual Taught Me That Sexual Intolerance is a Bigger Problem Than We...
How do we teach our children to love unconditionally when they are surrounded by a culture of violence, discrimination and hate? ______ She slipped her arms tightly around my waist and pulled my body...
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Reacting to Intolerance: Would You Speak Up or Stay Silent?
Post by Pinoy Radio Online. – An experiment with actors shows what happens when customers in a grocery store mistreat a bagger with special needs. ___ This video challenges us to think about how we...
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Sam Lamott Teaches His Mom, and Us, About Grace
Jessica Kantrowitz finds hope in Sam Lamott’s handling of his mother’s Caitlyn Jenner Twitter mistake. ___ I do not understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are and does not...
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Words of Hope for a Young Boy Who Is Gay
“I’m homosexual and I’m afraid about what my future will be and that people won’t like me.” Posted by Humans of New York on Friday, July 3, 2015 ‘I’m homosexual and I’m afraid about what my future...
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The United States: a Land of Double Standard for Religious Liberty?
View image | gettyimages.com Some politicians feel that religious liberty only applies to the religions of their choosing. Warren Blumenfeld points out the hypocrisy in this argument. — “[Slavery]...
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East/West Symphony
I choose to fight intolerance with love poetry. ––– Take off your boots, stay a while soldier. The fire is dimming, the ashes smolder. The night is over, mount your mistakes. Music begins, the throne...
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The Best Post-Workout Protein for Men Might Surprise You!
Oh, milk. We thought you always did a body good! But there are better ways for men to recover after a workout. — So you’ve decided that this is your time, you’re going to get in shape, increase your...
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Opinion: Can You Separate the Artist From Their Art?
Embed from Getty Images __ The question: Should you continue to support an artist who has controversial views, habits, statements or predispositions. Should we support artists whose viewpoints do not...
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School’s Starting: What’s your plan for handling bullying? — A Call for...
Embed from Getty Images — My son is about to turn 14 (wow, the time sure has flown by) and he’s heading to the 9th grade. With the cultural climate being engendered by our government, one of fear,...
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Should a tolerant society put up with intolerance? – A Call for Submissions
Embed from Getty Images — In a tolerant society, the question often comes up: Should we be protecting the free speech of people who are intolerant. After all, free speech means people have the right to...
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Differentiating the Art From the Artist: A Call for Submissions
Embed from Getty Images — William Shatner, of Star Trek fame, recently released a less-than-ideal rant on Twitter about his feelings regarding Social Justice Warriors. A rant right out of the...
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Is There Anything Called Unbiased Evaluation?
Embed from Getty Images — We make evaluations almost every moment in our life (probably even when we are sleeping). These evaluations help us to make decisions, decisions that are vital to our...
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Un-Defining Manhood
*** I once posed for photographs in high heels and women’s lingerie. I was twenty. The pictures were meant to go with an April Fool’s edition of my college newspaper, but got nixed by the university...
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Perry Mason Had Faith in the “Eventual Supremacy of Reason!”
2018 – Republican’s rule Congress and the White House. Do you wonder how men like Chuck Grassley, Orin Hatch, Mitch McConnell & Donald Trump sleep at night? Probably better than you or I. Lack of...
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Mike and Kathy Pence are Not Victims but are Perpetrators of Intolerance
Mike Pence kvetched to the graduating class at Liberty University that the most marginalized group in the U.S. are Christians: Some of the loudest voices for tolerance today have little tolerance for...
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Everything and Nothing
We are here and not here. We have never been one country, only the experimental idea of one. We have socially constructed our ideas of identity and constructed mostly isolated lives. We are segregated...
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How Can We Tolerate Intolerance?
LAWRENCE – Like someone dreading a holiday-dinner encounter with a bigoted family member, those are the questions playwright Paris Crayton III and director Markus Potter pose with the initial workshop...
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