Is there any wonder why the Herald is failing, cutting its print days and charging the same price, after the article that was front and center on March 22? There in full color we have some twerpy student and his minions crying for a “safe space” because somebody came on campus and dared to speak of ideas that disagreed with their thoughts.
Reading the article, it appears that the student and his crybaby friends actually were bullying (isn’t bullying a rallying cry for students?). The speaker, Keith Darrell, was bullied as he spoke his opinion, in far from a hateful way. Just saying that he thought homosexuality and other activities were sins, but that God would forgive. Disagree if you like, but hardly “hate speech.”
These 50 students shed a bad light on Fort Lewis College. They don’t need a safe space, they need diapers, pacifiers and a playroom. In addition, they need someone to read them the definition of “fascism” so that they won’t make bigger fools of themselves by carrying banners that make no sense. As Abraham Lincoln once said, “Better to keep your mouth closed and have people think you’re a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
I fully agree with Tod Patterson’s letter (Herald, March 15); this paper is in trouble because it has the same “inclusion delusion” Obama had and only caters to the far left and far left “Durangutans.”
Robert Goodrich
Bayfield
