Growing up in Brunswick, in the 1950s, I read most of the comics in the Maine Sunday Telegram; more recently, I have pared my comics reading list to “Peanuts,” “Pickles” and the more acerbic social and political commentary in “Doonesbury” and “Dilbert.”
But after reading “Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams’ recent bigoted racist rant, I immediately decided to boycott the strip. I was pleased to later see the Press Herald’s notice that it is dropping the strip in response to Adams’ words. Hopefully, many readers and publications will follow suit.
There can be a very thin line between hateful speech and violent action. If individuals and organizations do not act in some symbolic or substantive manner to overtly condemn the proliferation of hate in our society, we will diminish ourselves, both individually and collectively, while encouraging the steady degradation of civility, both locally and globally.
Michael Beaudoin
Falmouth
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