Man arrested after threatening to “bomb” Merriam-Webster offices over LGBTQ+ inclusive definitions
A man has been arrested for threatening to harm the staff at Merriam-Webster over LGBTQ+ inclusive definitions. On 20 April, a California man named Jeremy David Hanson was charged with one count of “interstate communication of threats to commit violence.” According to an official statement from the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, Hanson used the dictionary website’s “Contact Us” portal to submit an array of threatening messages between 2 October and 8 October.
He also used the comment section of words like “Girl”, “Woman”, “Boy”, and “Trans Woman” to spread anti-LGBTQ+ hate. Authorities revealed that Hanson went by the username “@nonYmous” to submit his hate-filled comments.
In one of his posts, he wrote: “It is absolutely sickening that Merriam-Webster now tells blatant lies and promotes anti-science propaganda.
There is no such thing as ‘gender identity.’ The imbecile who wrote this entry should be hunted down and shot.” In a message sent through the “Contact Us” section, he threatened to bomb and shoot up the company’s headquarters. “It is sickening that you have caved to the cultural Marxist, anti-science tranny [sic] agenda and altered the definition of ‘female’ as part of the Left’s efforts to corrupt and degrade the English language and deny reality,” he wrote. “You evil Marxists should all be killed.
