Today I was reading a news article about 6 year old Jasmina Anema. She has leukemia and the Make A Wish Foundation arranged for her to meet the president. He met with her and her mother in the Oval Office. People familiar with this organization know they grant the wishes of terminally ill children. So when I finished reading the story I started reading the comments and I was struck by one in particular the writer responded to the article by writing “one less nigglet.” I was struck by this vile hateful response to the story, but what we see is people will say practically anything under the cloak of anonymity. I have been writing this blog for almost 2 years and people will write some incredibly disrespectful things that they would never have the courage to say face to face. When you write a political blog some dissent goes with the territory, but even here there are some things so incredibly vile that I would never post them, but to respond with such hatred toward an innocent child is not expressing an opinion it is just expressing hatred.
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