In response to Sona Markholt’s Thursday letter concerning the white supremacists at the Onalaska town hall meeting, I would like to point out that her feeling that they should have been run out of town is extremely troubling and one of the main problems with our society recently.
In a free society, there is an exchange of ideas and open communication. It is up to the individual to form their opinion of those ideas and respond.
Should Joe Kent have responded differently? Absolutely. White supremacy is a vile and wicked ideology.
It has no place in a civil society, just like Black Lives Matter (all lives matter, not just black ones), woke, defund police and all the other drivel that’s been spouted recently.
But these other ideologies are just as bad as white supremacy because they put one segment of society above all the rest, and nowadays the media is supporting and encouraging these ideas because it sells readership and matches their idea of how we should think and act.
Don’t agree with me? Then I will shut you out of the exchange of ideas and “open” communication.
You can’t have a free society if you shut out part of the dialogue, and that’s what is happening today.
Bruce Peterson,
Centralia
