A darker place

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys the sense of value. It causes those that hate to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Today, politics has adopted the extremes, propelling the vast majority to feel disenfranchised and leaving the stage free for those who believe in extreme views.

Those who ebb towards the two extremes become more hardline and irrational and they stimulate the engine for ideologies that are simply objectionable to any civilised society.

The culture to allow peddling of hate goes unchecked.

Instead of closing it down today we witness the very people who many look to, to uphold the values of a fair and decent society, joining what has become fashionable, making gross and offensive observations that facilitate the sowing of the seeds of zealots, bigots and racists.

It cannot be acceptable to allow the freedom of free speech to be hijacked by those who peddle hate.

After last Friday’s mass killing of 50 people in New Zealand, there should be no hiding place for those who voice hatred in whatever form and believe they can do so without repercussions

Today the world is a darker place. Shaun Cunningham Shearwater Avenue, Fareham