To the editor: As a Jew whose father went by way of World Warfare 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 not too long ago, I had been pondering: Why isn’t anybody evaluating Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s and his operating mate Sen. JD Vance’s Haitian smear rhetoric to Nazi Germany? Columnist Michael Hiltzik lastly mentioned what wanted to be mentioned and offered a historical past lesson and warning that the complete nation must heed.
We must always by no means reduce race-baiting conduct. If it isn’t ample 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 all the time 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 colleges that has the commandments posted in lecture rooms and spend a bit of 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 up to date political conduct to Nazism. It has all the time appeared hyperbolic.
However the groundwork that’s being laid by the Trump marketing campaign is similar to that of the Nazi Get together of the late Twenties and early Nineteen Thirties.
Richard Shafarman, Santa Clarita
