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...read with dismay on the Internet your staff editorial of Oct. 29, 1996 ("Peninsula's Rant: Staff Culpable, Swastika Harmful") concerning Jose Padilla and the Peninsula. Given the condescension and closemindedness with which you, the staff of a newspaper at one of America's finest colleges, insult and dismiss the views of the Peninsula, it should come as no surprise that someone a little less responsible than you chose to tack a swastika on Padilla's door...
...CARR (R) District 1 (Upper Peninsula; northern lower Michigan...
JEFF COOPERSMITH (D) District 1 (Puget Sound--north Seattle suburbs; Kitsap Peninsula...
This perspective--or indeed, any perspective--obviously escaped Kaufman. Instead of treating the Peninsula piece as the fluff that it was, he freely applied the most libelous epithets imaginable, calling Peninsula members fascistic, Gestapo-esque anti-Semites...
...writing. Criticism of Alan Dershowitz does not constitute anti-Semitism. Silly jokes about firing squads are not the same as fascism. By applying these labels frivolously, Kaufman trivialized the evils they represent. And I think that this act is considerably more irresponsible than anything I've seen in the Peninsula lately. --Ben Auspitz...