Cold high ground

Dear ER:

The burgeoning of Vanessa Poster’s “United Against Hate” signs is such a relief, in contrast to those yard signs supporting “Hate.”Oh wait. There are no “Hate” signs (“Sandbox,” ER September 26, 2024). Excuse my faux surprise, but the “United…” signs should come with their own Klieg lights and amplifiers to trumpet at all hours of the day and night the sign owner’s virtue. Poster inadvertently admits the irony of her blind spot: the signs have been posted in yards for nearly four years, but “hate” crimes and all those phobias continue to rise.

How is that possible? We have signs! We must need bigger signs? Maybe if the virtue signalers could tear themselves away from their latest vanity project/ad campaign and actually do the work — practice color blindness, getting kids off social media, foster resiliency, stop SEL, promote curriculum based learning, reduce psych therapies, read Abigail Shrier, stop confusing children with gender questions, and get rid of their ridiculous yard signs, hate might reduce. But, then folks like Vanessa Poster would have no drum to bang. There is a question from the Dowager character of “Downton Abbey” Maggie Smith, who just passed, I think is appropriate for Vanessa Poster and her cadres of feckless crusaders: “Do you need a coat? Because, it must be awfully chilly up there on that moral high ground?”

CWU

Manhattan Beach