Dear Editor:

Re: Here’s why we’ll miss Christy Clark, Our View, New Westminster Record, Aug. 2.

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What a racist and misandrist opinion you have printed! For a community paper you sure like to attack and divide it! Can we tone down the hate speech and have a civil opinion?

You lost your own credibility when you started attacking a specific group. As per usual, you also miss the point of what equality means or what it is that makes and reflects a democracy.

Equality is when one is not judged on their sex but on their action and worth as an individual. For that matter, it should make no difference what their skin colour is either! As soon as you start attaching ethnicity or gender you have failed to achieve the goals of equality or diversity – and your juvenile and ill informed “view.”

If you wish to perpetuate hate and incite a racist and gender-based argument, go back to another century – because, honestly, you are no better, worse probably, than any other racist or misogynistic organization.

I am a white middle-aged male, and I do appreciate and understand symbolism – you may be unable to recognize this because of your apparent racist and blinded “views.” Nevertheless, being middle-aged, not young, although I do not subscribe to your ageist belief system either, I realize politics will attract individuals who are interested in serving their community. Any artificial influence, pushing gender and race as qualifications, defeats what good government is meant to be.

I am not, nor should anyone be, focused on colour or gender when looking at election candidates; you won’t find a good leader that way. Looking at the individual inside, their experience, their education, will better serve us in finding the best people.

I sincerely hope that you are able to reach a maturity level that will make you a better person, but in the meantime, please take a nap and let the adults lead the world. So sad that 12-year-olds are now running the newspaper!

Craig Thompson, New Westminster