{"id":15104,"date":"2019-05-13T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T16:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=57898"},"modified":"2019-05-13T10:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T16:22:31","slug":"opinion-letter-not-on-my-watch-bill-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/opinion-letter-not-on-my-watch-bill-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Letter: Not on my watch, Bill Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to say that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/opinion\/opinion-hamilton-liberty-equality-and-diversity-ideals-in-conflict\/\">latest opinion column<\/a> from Bill Hamilton contains some disturbing thinly veiled racism, but on second thought, I\u2019m going to go with: It\u2019s just plain racist.<\/p>\n<p>You seem to feel readers don\u2019t understand that \u201csame\u201d and \u201cequal\u201d are two different concepts, and that people aren\u2019t all going to be the same. Liberals don\u2019t aspire to sameness, and that\u2019s not what political correctness means. Liberal thinkers aspire to equity. We believe that we all have equal&nbsp;value. Political correctness means if someone asks you to value you them equally, to avoid using terms of speech that have historically been used to marginalize, shame, dehumanize and demean them, then kindly stop. In simpler terms, it means: Be a decent human being. When it comes to sneering at someone\u2019s request for decency and equity, don\u2019t be That Guy.<\/p>\n<p>It means not referencing the \u201cHoards\u201d (I think you meant hordes, but it\u2019s true, this administration is stockpiling them like chattel) of presumably unvaccinated migrants in a what is semantically a giant racist dog whistle. How nice you could ponder the silver lining of these human beings\u2019 utter despair by wondering if we might vaccinate them while holding them indefinitely and taking their children. \u201cSometimes,\u201d you wrote, \u201cCrisis and Opportunity are two sides of the same coin. Should we take this Opportunity to vaccinate migrants who have not been vaccinated? We report. You decide.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve decided. You\u2019re That Guy.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Cara McDonald, Tabernash<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-very-dark-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\"><em><strong>LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:<\/strong> Send your letters to the editor to Sky-Hi News editor Bryce Martin at <a href=\"mailto:bmartin@skyhinews.com\">bmartin@skyhinews.com<\/a>. Please ensure they are 400 words or less and contain your first and last name and town of residence. Letters without this information will not be published.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/opinion\/opinion-letter-not-on-my-watch-bill-hamilton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to say that the latest opinion column from Bill Hamilton contains some disturbing thinly veiled racism, but on second thought, I\u2019m going to go with: It\u2019s just plain racist. You seem to feel readers don\u2019t understand that \u201csame\u201d and \u201cequal\u201d are two different concepts, and that people aren\u2019t all going to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 18:29:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}