Re: Gazette May 25 letter, "Columnist views are damaging":
"Facts do not change because you are not intelligent or empathetic enough to understand them."
"I again implore the Gazette to please consider the damage they are allowing these points of view to cause."
So I guess that anyone who disagrees with the personal views of the writer of this letter is not intelligent or empathetic. And no one is allowed to dispute it. Nowadays it seems that there are many people who proclaim themselves to be tolerant, accepting and righteous, but when these righteous people come across someone who doesn't believe in whatever they view as right, these seemingly tolerant people become very intolerant and begin to attack and try to bully everyone else into believing what they do, which will never work.
Some people actually believe that if you don't think like them, then you are absolutely, no question, a horrible person – 100 per cent, no chance of any other explanation, nor will they listen to any other reasoning. This is why over the last year or so I have seen so many labels thrown out there by those who want to censor anyone else who doesn't go along with their narrative – bigot, racist, nazi and many more – these words are now commonly used to dehumanize and degrade others who don't follow a particular narrative and to bully and scare others into thinking a certain way. This is all rather cult-like and disturbing.
To have a media outlet stifle anyone (within reason, common sense applies) is very wrong and dangerous. This is supposedly a free country and all people should have a voice – left, right, center or otherwise. This is just another tactic being used to stop specific opposing opinions from getting out there.
To actually tell a media outlet to stop allowing certain people to voice their opinion is very telling of how indoctrinated some people are. To actually believe that your view is the only view is incredibly narrow-minded and intolerant.
I will continue to think whatever I want, no matter who tries to bully me into thinking otherwise.
Donald McQuarrie, St. Albert
