Zack Adamson is an agent of cultural poison

On our podcast Barney & Clyde, libertarian blogger and occasional candidate for statewide office Clyde Myers and I have a semi-regular segment called Old News, in which we re-examine items that have fallen off the radar screen but still merit a look. I have one such story that I'll offer here. It involves a particularly smelly chunk of dog vomit named Zack Adamson:

Speaking of Democratic lawmakers and accusations of anti-Semitism, my friend Tony Katz called my attention to this controversy about a Jewish deli owner getting accused of “feeding Nazis” by an Indianapolis city councilman.

As the National Rifle Association’s members arrived in Indianapolis, local eatery Shapiro’s Deli offered a message on Twitter welcoming NRA members, and urging them to eat there, as Donald Trump had in 2016.

Indianapolis City-County Councilor Zach Adamson criticized the restaurant for welcoming NRA members and declared on Facebook, “This is about bragging that you feed Nazis and then being shocked with (sic) all the locals avoid you.”

As you may have guessed, Brian Shapiro, the owner of the deli, is Jewish. Shapiro’s great-grandmother, fled Russia in the late 19th century because of pogroms, violent anti-Jewish riots.

First, NRA members are not Nazis, and the city councilman damages understanding of history when he makes knee-jerk accusations of people of being Nazis just because he disagrees with them on gun control. We can choke on the historical irony of Adamson labeling his political foes the name of a regime that banned the possession of firearms for any group they deemed a potential threat to their power and confiscated those firearms.

Second, it is not the job of local elected officials to denounce local eateries for “feeding Nazis.” Your job is to help your community thrive, not attempt to shut down businesses whose owners have the audacity to disagree with you.

Circle City voters, give this guy the pink slip at the next opportunity.