Lester Hunt wasn’t expecting hate mail after he sent out an e-mail last week announcing a talk called “Don’t Vote! Why Voting Is Immoral,” being held tonight on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
To his surprise, hostile responses started filling his inbox. “Don’t send me this junk,” demanded one person. Another complained, “It is because of a democracy that loopy liberals such as yourselves can have such ridiculous beliefs and morals.”
Some even used obscenities to describe their feelings about the guest speaker, feminist author and anarchist Wendy McElroy, who argues that to vote to endorse a corrupt system and its values.
Posters for tonight’s event were torn down and ripped up.