‘Whitewashing’

Dear Editor:

Re: A sincere Christian, Oct. 9.

Henry Brunsveld’s letter to the editor is truly concerning. No one deserves to be a target of an assassin.

But at the end of the day Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric was indeed incendiary. Your whitewashing of it is nothing short of incredible, especially in Canada.

A review of 100 videos and no evidence of hate, racism, violence or white supremacy (you left out misogyny)? Unlike Dr. Thaddeus Williams, Helen Keller would be able to see and hear evidence to the contrary.

And then you end your letter by saying that Kirk’s assassination was an attempt to “silence his conservative Christian views”? Are “Christian views” suddenly categorized under “conservative” and “liberal” headings? Give me a break.

My father immigrated to Canada from the U.S. in the early 1960s to get away from the hateful ideals that men like Kirk proclaimed and the individuals who believed in those words.

There’s a fine line between First Amendment Rights (Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms) and hate speech. I can differentiate between the two.

Brett Davis,
Orton