I add my support to your liberal policy of printing letters to the editor expressed in your editorial, “Rules for a robust public debate (10 July),” notwithstanding my disagreement with some of your basis, specifically its assertion that some of your published Joan Swirsky opinions are “nonsense.”
A correspondent, Nicole Biton, characterized Ms. Swirsky’s letter of that issue as “racist.” At the risk of incurring similar criticism, I write to state that Ms. Swirsky’s letters are neither nonsense or racist. They are equitable, astute and patriotic.
I share Ms. Swirsky’s indignation at the extreme double standard that has overtaken our nation.
A good example is a new buzzword that the “woke” Ms. Biton accused Ms. Swirsky of without giving an example; “microaggression.”
Microaggression is the interpretation by which every silver lining is found to conceal a cloud. Woke folks can take the most sincere compliment and discover hidden malicious intent. By this standard saying “All lives matter” is considered racist.
I’m aware of no one who was not horrified at George Floyd’s murder, no one who does not seek justice to avenge his death. The woke support the resultant “peaceful” demonstrations that are actually violent and result in murder, injury, destruction of the businesses even of Black proprietors who lost their life savings, and fires set to police stations.
Very few of these supporters say a word about the 18 Chicago Blacks murdered on the Floyd weekend by other Blacks; and many more murdered since, including young children.
Is calling attention to such racist?
The National Association of Police Officers which supported Obama and Biden, in both 2008 and 2012, endorsed President Trump for a second term last week.
Is this nationwide organization of nearly a quarter-million officers also racist?
The violent protests we are seeing by BLM and Antifa are not in any way democratic.
They are the stirrings of a revolution. No one should be complacent about them. But the Democrat Party is completely silent except for their support for defunding the police.
Ms. Biton emphasized the racial but said not a word about the Democrat-Party “resistance,” aspects of Ms. Swirsky’s letter. I remind Ms. Biton that someone who rides a tiger will likely end up inside.
Len Mansky
Roslyn
