I am so tired of hearing "this is the landscape of college football," "it's the nature of the beast," "don't hate the game, hate the player," and "it's just business" as if that somehow makes it okay.
"If I had... scars all over my body, I imagine there may have been more understanding, but the silent, secret, sometimes subtle nature of the constant harassment and hate campaign leads to an isolation.
But for many the ferocity and personal nature of the abuse verges on hate speech.
Everyone held pruning shears, except Gilleran, who demonstrated the indiscriminate nature of his hate for regulation by holding a chainsaw.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Los Angeles-based Wiesenthal Center, said in a statement that if the district had wanted to help students understand the nature of hate propaganda, "they should have assigned them to research the sources of the bigotry — totalitarian governments like Iran, neo-Nazi groups and bigoted pseudo-intellectuals".
"If the teacher involved wanted to help his or her student understand the nature of hate propaganda, they should have assigned them to research the sources of the bigotry— totalitarian governments like Iran, neo-Nazi groups and bigoted pseudo-intellectuals," Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Los Angeles-based center, said in a statement.
More writers signed an open letter of protest, others stepped in to support PEN and Hebdo, and the literary world engaged in a on often ill-tempered discussion about the magazine's treatment of minorities, the nature of hate speech, and whether an award can celebrate speech without endorsing the words spoken.
I explored the sources and nature of Karlgaard's hate in the second column.
With the exception of one memorable speech on the nature of love and hate, he is a brooding and taciturn figure.
