From your article:
Is the 50 words for snow myth completely false?
Behind many myths is a grain of truth. However, the latest studies show that Boas was, actually, correct.
In any event, I never mentioned any one group of people, that was in your head. I don’t know much about them, haven’t lived in Canada or Alaska (I have lived in Scotland and Norway).
Thank you.
My biggest issue with this story (and other stories I’ve read about the store) is the focus on the soap-opera aspects of the thing, the inter-family relationships, then disguising it as an important crime story because of the tax and securities fraud, which was relatively penny-ante for the Reagan era. I’m also not crazy about the fact that all these stories make a big deal about the fact that the family is Jewish, feeding some really terrible antisemitic tropes. Antar is American. You never see stories like this which say, “oh by the way, the perp was Presbyterian.”
