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Phillips: People being ‘canceled’ for seeking change

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Within days of a resident having the courage to speak out, with seeming knowledge of new and different ways, and the commitment to board service, we already have agents of the cancel culture at work.

I’m speaking of resident Tom Slade, and the awful letter directed at him by one Kit Carter in the Oct. 20 edition of the Independent. What justification is there for resident Carter insultingly referring to Mr. Slade as a “Lost Ranger,” or writing that if he doesn’t like things he should just move? Is this supposed to be funny? Is Mr. Slade now to be condemned to the gallows as Lou Mancuso was, just for believing Sun City West could be run better — and more economically for residents — if management truly cared about costs?

What’s truly absurd is Carter’s statement that “….most Sun City West residents live here because of how it is managed, not in spite of it.” How he came to this conclusion is not revealed, but it is not fact, and instead an opinion backed up by nothing.

These attacks, this one even bordering personal, have become indicative of life in our community, right up to arbitrary and penurious decisions to ban people from certain activities for refusing to disclose personal health decisions. How sad our community has become so ugly, so divided. Perhaps it has always been that way, but no one noticed.