Night Kitchen boycott calls uncalled for

Someone didn't like the way a cookie was decorated and therefore a bakery should be put out of business?

The problem is not that the target was wrong (Amy Edelman is not a Trump supporter) but that there is a political view that means that a business, a life, should be ruined. Trump derangement syndrome sure makes people do crazy things.

And yes, I think that some bakery during World War II with a sense of humor and a taste for marketing could have baked a cookie with a picture of Hitler with the slogan "take a bite out of Adolf." Charlie Chaplin made an entire movie as a Hitler lookalike to point out what was wrong with Hitler.

I hope that the Night Kitchen will continue to do its straw polls before elections. It is fun and helps to sell cookies.

I also hope that the Local will publish the name of the person who tried to start the boycott. This person deserves to be publicly shamed.

Bob Rossman

Chestnut Hill

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