Dear HCN,
We read the “Waaaaaahh”
essay you published on the back page of HCN Feb. 20, and found it
beyond insulting and beneath contempt. It made us sad to see you
endorse such sweeping cruel generalizations and obvious vulgar
innuendo. Sadder that it appeared just when polarizations and lack
of trust over wolf, water and urbanization problems, among others,
threaten our common future, East and West. You undid a lot of good
here. That essay will be held up and quoted by many short-sighted
Westerners who consider “environmentalist” a nasty
word.
We subscribe to High Country News because
we care about the long-term future of our family, the West, and our
country. We want to be informed about the current issues of this
region from sources we can respect as intelligent, and trust as
honorable. We hope not to be confronted by such bigoted drivel in
HCN again.
Rod McQueary and
Sue Wallis
Deeth,
Nevada
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Bigoted drivel.
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