Letters to the Editor
Thresher wrongly slanders merchants
To the editor:
Please consider what kind of language is used in your unsigned editorials. It is certainly justified to complain about the use of the Rice Memorial Center by people selling goods and services (“The RMC is not a strip mall,” Aug. 31). I’m not convinced that calling them “gypsy panhandlers” (which group do you want to disparage, gypsies or the poor?) furthers your argument. Once you have used a racial and social identifier for those selling goods, the phrase “moneychangers in our naptime temple” seems less innocent as well: how has this image been used in the past?
Peter Caldwell
History Professor
Classifieds ad sexist, offensive to all
To the editor:
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