Tag Archives: Jews
NOT Unethical Website of the Month: “All Dead Mormons Are Now Gay”
Making dead Mormons “gay for eternity.” Well played, whoever you are. Continue reading
Filed under Gender and Sex, Humor and Satire, Religion and Philosophy, The Internet
Ethics Quiz: The Strange Case of Mitt Romney and the Posthumous Jewish Baptisms
Oh NO! Mormons are sending famous Jews to heaven without their consent!!! This looks like a job for…Mitt Romney??? Continue reading
George Washington’s Vision of Religious Freedom
George Washington’s wisdom speaks to us through the centuries. Here is a neglected example, but an important one, regarding religious freedom. Continue reading
Unethical Quote of the Week AND Unethical Apology of the Month: Rep. Steve Cohen
Rep. Cohen has made a fool of himself, and with an outrageously uncivil speech, a dishonest characterization of it, and a defiant and equally dishonest “apology,” he has lapped the competition in the race to take former Congressman Alan Grayson’s mantle as the least civil member of Congress. Continue reading
Blood Libel Ethics and the U.S. News Media’s Integrity Dead End
The news media’s self-destructive obsession with discrediting Sarah Palin has reached its ethical nadir, and with it any reasonable hope that U.S. journalism, as currently practiced, will be returning to credibility and respectability within the foreseeable future. Continue reading
Glenn Beck vs. George Soros: Beck Cheats, Soros Wins
Glenn Beck makes his own views seem weaker by using such dishonest tactics against Soros, and, as is often the case with Beck, he also makes his viewers ignorant in the process. George Soros deserves to be admired as someone whose rise shows what is great about America. By representing him as something else and using falsehoods and deceit to do it, Beck proves that he doesn’t fully appreciate the very values he claims to be defending. Continue reading
Oscar, Jean Luc-Godard, and the Ethics of Honoring Talented Creeps
I think it would send a powerful and legitimate message if the Academy gave Godard his honorary Oscar in an empty room. The message: we admire your work, but we don’t respect you. Continue reading
CNN’s Rick Sanchez Firing Statement: Fair or a Missed Opportunity?
Should CNN’s statement about Rick Sanchez’s firing (for anti-Semitic comments) have been more combative? Continue reading
The Ethics Of The Ground Zero Mosque
The proposed Ground Zero mosque is an Ethics Train Wreck, one is so bad I hesitated to write about it—ethics train wrecks trap commentators too—in the vain hope that it would somehow resolve itself with minimal harm. That is obviously not in the cards, however; not when the Anti-Defamation League weighs in on the side of religious intolerance, thus forfeiting its integrity and warping its mission. The wreck is still claiming victims, and there is no end in sight. Continue reading
Filed under U.S. Society
