LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Be careful of our words
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To the editor:
(re: “Presidential tweet or no?” Nov. 23)
“The” mentally ill has risen to a level of prominence in our rhetoric that “the” blacks once occupied.
Both deteriorate to caricature, a good reason to avoid employing them.
Harold A. Maio
The author is a retired mental health editor out of Fort Myers, Florida.
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