A California man was arrested Friday after he allegedly sent death threats to staffers at Merriam-Webster because he was enraged by the dictionary’s definitions of the words “girl” and “woman,” reports BuzzFeed.
Jeremy David Hanson, 34, of Rossmoor in Orange County was charged with one count of interstate communication of threats to commit violence, according to the Justice Department. If convicted, he could face up to five years in prison.
Prosecutors say that between Oct. 2 and 8, 2021, Hanson messaged the dictionary staff through their website’s “Contact Us” page and posted in the comments of the online dictionary’s pages defining “girl” and “woman,” threatening to bomb their offices, reports BuzzFeed.
In one message, he allegedly wrote:
“You [sic] headquarters should be shot up and bombed. 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. You evil Marxists should all be killed. It would be poetic justice to have someone storm your offices and shoot up the place, leaving none of you commies alive.”
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