Liberal columnist struggling to find new ways to bash Trump
AJC columnist Kathleen Parker has given incivility a new meaning: She trumpets U.S. Rep. Maxine Walters’ tempest to confront President Trump’s Cabinet members with uncivil behavior as being civil. Rep. Waters encourages liberals to embarrass Republicans who support Trump by saying they’re not welcome anymore in public places like restaurants. I think that’s what Parker’s saying; she keeps stumbling over ways to criticize Trump while encouraging incivility, which is par for liberal column writers.
JACK FRANKLIN, CONYERS
Luckovich wrong to invoke Nazi imagery
We were deeply troubled by the Mike Luckovich editorial cartoon on June 26, which seemed to implicitly draw a comparison between Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was recently turned away from a restaurant due to her work with the Trump Administration, to the notorious German propagandist Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi Party.
While one can disagree with the administration’s policies, the comparison between this administration and the Nazi Party is inappropriate and historically dishonest.
It has become too common in our society to use comparisons to the Holocaust and Nazi imagery to undermine opposing views. The six million Jewish victims and millions of other victims of Hitler deserve better. Their deaths should not be trivialized for political humor. This comparison diminishes the very real and serious history of Hitler, World War II and the Holocaust.
We appreciate that editorial cartoonists occasionally will push the boundaries to make a point about heated issues of the day, but we believe that over-the-top comparisons such as this only serve to cheapen the discussion. We hope Mr. Luckovich will refrain from using Holocaust imagery in the future.
ALLISON PADILLA-GOODMAN, REGIONAL DIRECTOR, ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
Conscience is important, but border wall’s a must
Columnist Kathleen Parker writes, “Without the burden of conscience, we have far greater problems than illegal immigration” (“Inhumanity renders our nation unrecognizable,” Opinion, June 21). Really, Ms. Parker? There are probably more than 2 billion people who would rather be in the U.S. than in their own country. So “without the burden of conscience,” we should allow all of these people, many of whom have children, to enter our country. Now, Ms. Parker, what might this do to our school systems, our health care systems, our infrastructure, fire, police and safety, etc.? There are essentially two reasons liberals want to flood our country with immigrants: There are those who are sincerely compassionate, and those who seek more bodies to vote Democrats into power. Yes, Ms. Parker, there is nothing more important than having immigration laws and a wall. Conscience is important, but laws are essential.
BRANDT ROSS, ATLANTA
Pols content to cast blame, avoid real solutions
"This is no time for mushy compromise. A solution requires two acts of national will: the ugly act of putting up a fence, and the supremely generous act of absorbing as ultimately full citizens those who broke our laws to come to America." – Columnist and FOX News commentator Charles Krauthammer, writing in the Washington Post in 2006. Krauthammer died June 21, but his commentary lives on. It seems no one in Washington wants to truly resolve the problem of our national sovereignty or border integrity; otherwise this issue would have been long resolved. The current emotional debate regarding the separation of children from "parents" who have illegally entered America is not the issue. The real issue is politicians maintaining their power by constantly blaming the other side. Why legislate a solution, when the solution was never the real goal?
WAYNE KERR, STOCKBRIDGE
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