WORCESTER — Less than two weeks after a City Council meeting was disrupted by online callers making racist and homophobic statements, multiple city councilors have reported that they recently received antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ mail at their home addresses.
Councilors-at-Large Khrystian King and Thu Nguyen and District 5 City Councilor Etel Haxhiaj shared photos of two pieces of mail. One featured various antisemitic conspiracy theories and a vulgar caricature of a Jewish person. The second contained a screed directed at transgender women that featured several uses of anti-trans slurs as well as antisemitic language.
The mailers arrived less than two weeks after two online callers to the Jan. 23 City Council meeting made racist and anti-LGBTQ statements before being cut off. One caller used a racial slur for Black people and was immediately followed by another caller who attempted to make a comment about trans women.
Councilors reported that one piece of mail claimed to contain the full speech the second caller meant to give.