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With Vitriol and Venom Boston Public Brings Olympics Debate to Halt
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31.05.2015
If there were an Olympic medal for acrimony, Boston would take the gold. The debate over the city's embattled bid to host the 2024 Summer Games has featured F-bombs at public hearings, shouting matches and online abuse in both directions. Regardless of whether the bid advances, some say the venom and vitriol represent a new low in a city where political disagreement long has been a blood sport. "This has been damaging to our discourse. It's a wound to our civic morale," said Ed Lyons, a Boston political activist whose arguments in favor of the Olympics have been met with profanity on social media.
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