The City of Mountlake Terrace on Wednesday released a statement regarding the interruption of a Monday, Jan. 8 city planning commission meeting “by anonymous parties making antisemitic and transphobic comments via Zoom.”
“These remarks were disgusting, hateful and cowardly,” the statement said. “The incident was a betrayal of one of the core values of our community: Everyone should feel safe and welcome at public meetings, and throughout Mountlake Terrace. While such gatherings are underscored by free speech principles, our city council and boards will not tolerate hate speech.
“The City of Mountlake Terrace condemns hateful conduct of any kind, especially in a public forum, and we reaffirm our commitment toward meaningful work on diversity, equity and inclusion.
“There is no evidence that the people behind this incident come from our community,” the statement added.
What were the remarks that were said?
Linda, are you actually suggesting they repeat the statements verbatim? What good would that accomplish? Or do you just want to decide for yourself if they were hateful enough for you?
One can not make proper discernment without knowing what was said. Just because someone posts that something was said which was deemed hateful without any information should give one pause, people should not jump on the bandwagon believing it to be true. Give the facts and then people can decide for themselves.
Nope! What is and isn’t hateful is not subject to a vote and it certainly isn’t the responsibility of the website to publish it for you to decide.
Maybe it’s just me, but having seen your comments here for years, I have a sneaking suspicion that whatever it was, your response would be that it wasn’t that bad.
Since the meetings are public, it seems reasonable that “anonymous comments” should be identified so the community knows who is saying what.