Sir, – Joe Humphreys (“How did the hate speech Bill find itself at the centre of a swirling culture war?”, August 7th) quotes a “wise friend”: “What is woke only a word for kindness?”
As a wise friend of mine observed when JK Rowling suffered the initial salvos of online abuse, including threats of sexual violence and death: “There’s none so vicious as the ‘be kind’ crowd.” – Yours, etc,
ALAN MURPHY,
Dublin 16.