Don’s ‘loss of life’ jab
Former President Donald Trump has gone from being a sensationalist snake-oil salesman to changing into a sociopathic risk to political figures in addition to nationwide safety, democracy, decency, civility and the rule of regulation (“Is Trump Happy To Be Dems’ Stooge?” Editorial, Oct. 4).
His newest public assault, stating that Sen. Mitch McConnell has a “loss of life want,” is a not-so-veiled risk which “the Don” is utilizing as a canine whistle to extremists to incite violence in opposition to others, below the duvet of the First Modification.
It’s, in reality, Trump who seems to be hastening his personal private, monetary and political destruction. It occurs to all despots and their sycophants in the end.
Christopher Fishki
Briarwood
Treatment for boy woes
Richard Reeves’ Oct. 2 opinion piece in The Put up says that males and boys are languishing within the US due to structural deficits within the American instructional system and labor market (“Lost in the Male,” PostScript).
He suggests boys ought to begin faculty a 12 months later than they do proper now. He additionally says boys must be inspired to enter the HEAL — well being, schooling, administration and literacy — sectors, the place the roles of the longer term can be extra plentiful than within the STEM fields.
Boys don’t go into HEAL fields at present as a result of they’re low-paid and thought of lowly and effete for males. Males are at a cultural and occupational crossroads in America. They need to sacrifice conventional ideas of masculinity, embedded in them since childhood, and embrace their female aspect with out disgrace, guilt or doubt.
The American media’s portrayal of males as sturdy and taciturn (or brutal and vile or clownish and ridiculous) doesn’t assist change the established order. Change can solely come if boys, the mother and father who increase them and the mentors who information them can instill in them that it’s not sissy to excel in class, it’s not effeminate to be mild and sort to oneself and to others and that there is no such thing as a males’s work or girls’s work — there’s solely work.
Usha Nellore
Bel Air, Md.
Extremist excuses
So hurling a Molotov cocktail right into a police van and setting it ablaze as an “act of protest” might be blamed on extreme ingesting, unprocessed trauma and witnessing injustice (“Molotov atty’s booze-hoos,” Oct. 2).
In some way these “traumas” didn’t cease Urooj Rahman from graduating regulation faculty and presumably passing the bar examination.Each New Yorker, to at least one diploma or one other, has related life experiences to Rahman. Most have in some way have avoided violent, anti-social habits.She destroyed the van. Thank God there have been no cops inside, or she’d be dealing with tried manslaughter or worse. She deserves to be disbarred and locked up for the time sentenced, not the paltry 28 days of time served.
Something much less is an insult to the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Affiliation and all law-abiding New Yorkers who in some way management their impulses, no matter how offended they might be.
Mel Youn
Lawrence
Psychological-health repair
As Stephen Eide & Carolyn D. Gorman acknowledged of their article on mental-health remedy, a “Continuum of Care” is important (“How to fix our broken mental system,” Oct. 6).
Admittedly, funding could be fairly the enterprise. Nevertheless, taking this a step additional, I’ve all the time envisioned a university-type platform the place the mentally sick are dropped at a campus setting as “freshman,” progress by acute and particular remedies facilitated by professionals and graduate as “seniors” (who’re put again into society for exhibiting their potential to reside independently and civilly).
Let’s begin the dialog and discover center floor. New York Metropolis can lead the nation on this regard.
Dan Hopkin
Washington Township, NJ
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