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To the editor:
Many people seem to have problems understanding the difference between facts and opinions. Thus, they feel calling an opinion a "lie" justified. In fact, a "lie" is a deliberate untruth. So you may call President Biden a bumbling shell and that's your opinion. I judge your critical thinking skills (or lack of attention) because you seem to have not had a similar assessment of another bumbling, brainless fool who was rejected by over 81 million voters. But that is my opinion.
Words have meanings and a person should use them accordingly. The word "insurrection" has an actual meaning. Using that word to refer to a protest that took place in a business district (no matter the damage) is incorrect. Arguing that the actual insurrection that took place at the seat of our government was not one because you incorrectly think "armed" means having guns is simply wrong and inaccurate.
And equating the murder of a man by a police officer kneeling on him during his arrest for allegedly passing a counterfeit $20 bill with the shooting of a woman smashing a window to enter a room with a guarded and barred door after repeatedly being warned to stand down is morally reprehensible.
Uninformed spouting off should, in my opinion, be saved for morning coffee around the C-store booth or ramblings from the bar stool at the local watering hole. But they keep finding their way onto the editorial page or our local paper as if they were facts.
Karen DeRoode
Ghent