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Inappropriate language
Dear HIP
I have always considered the Hastings Independent a newspaper with community values that attempts to produce balanced reporting. I was therefore surprised to read the following quote included in the article Trans Pride Hastings in the last edition – “When a young person is murdered we have to understand there are real consequences to the hate being spewed out by a very vocal minority.”
In my view, such an ambiguous statement simply adds to the “increasingly toxic” media conversation referred to in the article, since it is clearly addressed at those who have legitimate concerns about the conflation of sex and gender. The use of inappropriate language such as “hate being spewed out by a very vocal minority” is what leads to the othering of those with different views, generally women, and legitimises the appalling attacks that are constantly made against them. These attacks include incitement to physical violence and even murder as we have seen in the well-documented campaign against J K Rowling.
The article would have been perfectly clear and informative without the inclusion of this inflammatory language, and I hope HIP thinks more carefully before publishing such comment in the future.
Name withheld
Save the bluebells
Dear HIP
The Normanhurst Estate development must be stopped (Normanhurst fight hots up in HIP 223) to save the bluebell woods. Once gone they can never be replicated. Besides which the area already has too many ‘lodges’. It is an area that needs raising up, not further dumbing down.
Julia Docherty
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