I am really offended by something

written in <a href=

“https://northernstar.info/opinion/columnists/article_7b58b8ba-c12f-11df-b3b1-00127992bc8b.html”>

Logan Short’s column about drinking Thursday.

While I agree with the overall point

of not using alcohol as a crutch, there was no need for him to take

a cheap shot at people who have alcoholism.

This is what he wrote: “Alcohol may

make it easier to vent, but it cheapens those feelings to a $3 shot

at the bar, unless you’re an alcoholic, then you’re just

cheap.”

Maybe I misunderstood this and you can

help clarify it for me? I just don’t understand why he wrote that

last part of that sentence.

Alcoholism is a serious problem, a

disease. No one grows up wanting to be an alcoholic. It doesn’t

really make any sense why he called alcoholics cheap. It had

nothing to do with the article.

Let’s show some compassion for those

people who are struggling with this illness!

Please respond. I would honestly like

to know why he made a dig at alcoholics and what that had to do

with the point he was trying to make in the article.

Deirdre Clarke

Graduate student

Neuroscience