Nothing funny about Denny’s column
Nothing funny about Denny’s column
I find it ironic that a regular column featured in West Hawaii Today that seems to wish to present itself as humorous and insightful is abjectly neither. Dennis Gregory’s column is routinely laced with smug self-righteousness and bigotry.
In his column on Thursday, he states that it is Kona Republicans who live in gated communities to keep out “deplorables,” bathe seven times a day in one of their five bathrooms thereby wasting the valuable waters I assume he believes only Democrats deserve to enjoy. He completes his supposedly witty and wise Dear Denny letter by stating “… good Republican is an oxymoron.”
Dear Denny, you have just said that in your world view those Americans who do not believe in your political dogma are bad people. It must be quite comforting to be so certain of your superiority that you can snidely dismiss 150 million of your fellow citizens who do not share your views as “bad.”
I live in a normal non-gated neighborhood in Kona. I don’t have a pool or five bathrooms nor do I bathe seven times a day to waste water. I have neighbors all about me whom I know. Some are conservative in their viewpoints, others are liberal. And yet I would never deem to conclude that because of their views of the world one is bad and the other good. Deciding that someone is a bad person based on nothing more than their skin color, nationality, religion or even political views is bigotry at its finest.
Dear Denny, your past columns have been littered with offensive beliefs you giddily think are cleverly masked as insightful and humorous. Were they either, I might consider giving them a second look.
Fortunately, when I see your picture beside any future writing I can save myself the time as you’ve made it quite clear the views you will be sharing are based on your disgust of half the readers of the paper and your steely belief in your own intellectual superiority.
I cannot understand how a newspaper that wishes to retain its readership and present information to all of the people of West Hawaii believes it is wise to regularly feature a column written that so giddily insults half its customers.
Brian Powers
Kona