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Editor:
This letter is directed to Bret Rossen, but also to anyone who feels that someones' views on government involvement in education, makes you a Nazi.
Mr. Rossen, to tell you the truth I have no clue what your debate/meeting was about, however, I do know that you were out of line no matter what it was.
You were quoted as saying, "I'm not calling teachers Nazis, I'm calling the (Democratic) party and the platform Nazi." I would suggest that you get your facts straight before you start throwing around a word like Nazi.
First of all, one's opinion about government involvement in education does not make them a Nazi, even if the view is different from your own. Nazis killed 6 million Jews, as well as millions of others on the basis of their sexual orientation, if they were Gypsy, and much more. Continued overuse of the word "Nazi," especially amongst the so-called learned participants in a debate forum, leads to desensitization of the word. If this travesty continues the word will eventually lose it's impact when it is truly needed. Nazis performed heinous experiments on people, for instance: suffocating babies to see how long they could survive without air, and forcing people into a pressure chamber to see how much pressure it takes for a human to explode! Nazis killed people for no logical reason at all. For instance, if you were thought to be a Jew in hiding but they couldn't prove it, they might check the size of your nose. Since big noses are characteristic of the region from which the religion originated, the Nazis would murder you if your nose met certain profiles of large "Jewish" noses.
I don't care what it is that you debate about. But before you go calling a group of people Nazis, as you did the Democratic party, please think of the consequences of your action.
Lisa Wootton
family studies freshman
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