Emerson paper apologizes for comparing son of Holocaust survivor to Hitler

adamg — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:31:08 +0000

The Berkeley Beacon writes it still opposes Mike Ross's plan to get colleges to help enforce the city's ban on student apartment cramming, but acknowledges that, yes, comparing it to Nazi yellow-star policies was going too far:

The suffering of Ross' father is well-known in the Boston community. We should have done our research, but we did not.

Similarly, our tone and language in the editorial were hyperbolic and flippant. Ross does not plan to round up Boston's college students and put them in concentration camps, nor does he plan on tattooing us for identification by "Gestapo-like" guards. That was sarcasm and exaggeration that, in the fervor of argument, went too far.

Ross's letter to the Beacon.