Sunday, April 2, 2023

It seems being petty and mean spirited is the Zeitgeist of our age


NWS Cheyenne
Some of our recent posts have been in both English & Spanish. In response, there have been many racist comments. 27,000 WY & 129,000 NE residents speak Spanish & it's the 2nd most common language. Racism & bigotry will not be tolerated. Your comments will be promptly removed.
Seriously?  Weather reports in Spanish upset somebody?
Probably the same crowd, I'd note, that accuses everyone of being snowflakes.
Racism has beeen in the state forever, although when I was young quite frankly it was subtle at best.  It seemed concentratred, at that time, in areas associated with the Reservation, where racist views definately occured.  But it also occured elsewhere. An example of that being, for instance, a black Casper policemen being set up by his workers on a baloney scandal (that wouldn't be a scandal today) so that he had to resign.
But open petty mean spirited stuff. That's new, and seems to have come in during the last couple of decades.

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