Your Letters: Jan. 7, 2021
Reader Submissions
Shoulder doesn t care
I was informed that there are 18 different regular annual Flu vaccine manufacturers. There is the cheap shot at $5 and the big shot at $70. Currently, there are only two different COVID-19 vaccines, but several more are coming. Does anyone wonder about Pharma sharing the different details or their care to tell the patients?
Al Rice, Apple Valley
‘1619 Project’?
Richard Reeb raises some important issues in his opinion piece of Dec. 30, “Where is America’s ‘systemic’ racism?” I agree with Mr. Reeb that, “there is indeed entrenched racism in our country.” However, he makes charges and statements which do not stand up to scrutiny.
I m not an anti-Semite; I never have been; and I don t have much time for anti-Semites. I ve written a couple of million words of opinion commentary this past thirty years, all of it archived on my website, and I defy you to find any evidence of anti-Semitism in it anywhere.
However, I ve turned against the word philosemite, for reasons I ve explained elsewhere. Basically, it s patronizing. If pressed on the issue, I call myself an anti-anti-Semite. I cherish my Jewish friends, and I have publicly and again, I think, more than once expressed gratitude in print for the positive contribution Jews have made to our civilization, way out of proportion to their numbers.