In response to “Students Who Walked Out Over Climate Crisis are ‘Being Duped’”' I’m not even going to interact with the notion that climate change is a farce. The entire scientific community has already done that for me.

Here are some quick resources so you can read up before your next opinion piece in which you criticize children for expressing their constitutional right to peaceful protest: https://www.globalchange.gov/climate-change (This one is from the government and is inherently non-partisan or it would not be funded.) and https://www.climaterealityproject.org/climate-101 (This one has a video with Bill Nye! Fun for the whole family!)

What I am really here to take issue with is the fact that you are pushing an anti-semitic narrative while pretending not to take a stance. When you say things like “Friday's worldwide demonstration was organized by the Leftists/ Socialists/ Communists/ Progressives/Democrats/ Globalists/ Soros Followers of the world.” Your implication of George Soros as someone trying to take over the world with his money and influence harkens back to decades old anti-semitic tropes (Here is a WaPo article going deeper into this). These tropes hurt people, Susan.

When people push anti-semitic narratives under the guise of political opinion, people like me can directly see the harm it does. I don’t think you’re an anti-semite, Susan. I think you’re uninformed. I’m not mad at you, just as you shouldn’t be mad at those young adults taking a stand for what they believe in.

In a way, they are a lot like you, using their constitutional right to express their opinions (although their opinions just so happen to be backed up by facts). Sadly, the people who espouse these anti-emitic narratives are, in fact, the ones who have been duped.

Anna DeRosa

Potsdam