A hate-filled era

Tue., Dec. 1, 2020

Karen Dorn Steele’s 11-23-20 vitriolic diatribe against President Trump and his Cabinet (“Here’s to a new era”) is a perfect example of hate speech.

“Hate speech” is defined as “writing or speech that is abusive, threatening, or expresses prejudice against or hatred of a group of people.” Her descriptive terms of the administration: racist, hideous, “rapture-fan,” shady, lousy, clueless, torturer, legal lackey, snotty, sordid, etc. and other equally insulting terms are a few examples.

As you speak for other liberal progressives who now “can breathe again as President-elect Biden tackles the coronavirus” (with Donald Trump’s vaccines, I might add), I remind you that you concluded your diatribe with “Here’s to a new era of DECENCY and competence.” Let’s see; do you know the definition of the word DECENCY?

Roger M. Long

Mead

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