This is part of an email from a “Former 20 year dedicated veteran NYC teacher fired due to discrimination in the ‘land of the free’” This person was clearly very angry that I did not ask John Liu about his support of a policy requiring city workers get vaccinated. I appreciate the viewpoint and it made me think about the ways peope justify racist tirades. If you call to insult a politician for how they voted, is it fair game to call them the C word or N word or any other insult based on their race/gender/sexual orientation/disability? I definitely could have asked a question about his vote. Thoughts? “Perhaps the caller was a NYC worker who lost his job due to policies endorsed by John Liu. The racist comments were awful. Discrimination is always wrong ! But while John Liu posted the video of himself listening to the message on his Twitter page, trying to make this about race and getting people to feel sorry for him, the fact of the matter is that John Liu is the man who discriminates against people ! In that interview he clearly does not care about thousands of dedicated, hard working NYC teachers who were fired, not because they did anything wrong, but because they did not want to be a guinea pig in the government's experiment. I know this because I am one of those teachers. For 20 years, I devoted my life to the education of NY City students. My life and the lives of thousands of NYC teachers were destroyed because of politicians like John Liu and their DISCRIMINATORY policies towards the unvaccinated. And even when the fact that the vaccines do not work, as evidenced by the fact that vaccinated people can still get Covid and spread the virus to others (see Dr Fauci, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Eric Adams, etc...) the arrogant Mr. Liu says "it's nonsense", completely ignoring what we know to be facts, not opinion, and dismisses the interviewer in a very rude manner. He seems to be giddy about the fact that thousands of NYC teachers have lost their jobs. Are you ok with that Ms Nguyen? Two days after that interview in the park, Mr. Liu shamefully tried to deflect from the real issue of the vaccine mandates by playing the race card.”