Man who threatened to “bomb” Merriam-Webster over LGBTQ+ inclusive definitions pleads guilty
The man who inundated the Merriam-Webster offices with anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and bomb threats has pleaded guilty. Back in April, a California man named Jeremy David Hanson was arrested for one count of “interstate communication of threats to commit violence” after he sent horrific messages to the dictionary-based business.
According to a statement from the District of Massachusetts’ US Attorney’s office, Hanson used the dictionary website’s “Contact Us” portal to submit the aforementioned messages between 2 October and 8 October 2021.
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 another message Hanson, who went by the username “@nonYmous,” threatened to bomb and shoot up the company’s headquarters. “It is sickening that you have caved to the cultural Marxist, anti-science tra**y [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.
