To the editor: As a Jew whose father went by means of World Struggle II and the invasion of Normandy, I’ve a red-alert siren inside me that begins blaring within the face of focused smears towards marginalized ethnic teams. (“The Nazi roots of the Trump-Vance smear of Haitian immigrants,” column, Sept. 17)
Till just lately, I had been pondering: Why isn’t anybody evaluating Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s and his working mate Sen. JD Vance’s Haitian smear rhetoric to Nazi Germany? Columnist Michael Hiltzik lastly stated what wanted to be stated and supplied a historical past lesson and warning that your complete nation must heed.
We must always by no means decrease race-baiting conduct. If it isn’t enough trigger for alarm, then Individuals have their heads within the sand, hardened hearts and misplaced or lifeless souls. The forces that threaten freedom and sanctity of life for any group will at all times threaten us all.
Elaine Mintzer, Keene, N.H.
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To the editor: Vance, who says he’s a Christian, appears to have forgotten or is simply ignoring one of many Ten Commandments, “Thou shalt not bear false witness towards thy neighbor.”
Possibly he ought to go to one of many faculties that has the commandments posted in school rooms and spend somewhat time pondering their which means.
Kathleen Walker, Los Osos, Calif.
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To the editor: As a Jewish educator and a Holocaust lecturer, I’ve lengthy resisted comparisons of latest political conduct to Nazism. It has at all times appeared hyperbolic.
However the groundwork that’s being laid by the Trump marketing campaign is similar to that of the Nazi Celebration of the late Nineteen Twenties and early Thirties.
Richard Shafarman, Santa Clarita