letter to the editor

The first, and last, and only freedom we will ever have

Mon, 06/04/2018 - 5:45pm

Dear Editor:

At two in the morning last week, humorist and Trump-supporter Roseanne Barr tweeted a bad racist joke that the media chose to run continuously until her career was destroyed, even though she apologized.

A few weeks ago, humorist and Trump-denier Samantha Bee called Ivanka Trump a taboo word during a televised profanity-laced rant. The media accepted her apology, actually blamed Trump for her jokes, and granted her an industry award.

Back in 2010, Democrat Robert Byrd, the longest-serving senator in American history, finally expired, 66 years after being unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops, the highest office of his local KKK in West Virginia. Apparently, Congress and the media are still accepting his subsequent apology.

According to polls, today’s college students believe that we have no right to criticize certain classes of people (African-Americans, people of unconventional sexual orientation, sharia, Islam, illegal aliens, welfare abusers, etc.), but it is entirely acceptable to insult Christians, pro-life advocates, Jews, white males, conservatives, gun owners, and their unsavory ilk.

All of this deeply disturbs me, because genuinely free speech should be absolute, not “conditionally” based on the prevailing politics of the day. That is what I was taught more than 50 years ago in grammar school regarding the Bill of Rights, and that is the belief I will take to my grave.

Phil Molvar

Southport