I enjoy your paper very much and look forward to it each morning.
I also enjoy the commentaries that your staff periodically print.
While I agreed with Steve Krause’s expressions of anger and frustration at the shooting that happened on the playground in Lynn in his commentary, A Senseless, Pointless Tragedy (Item, Aug. 27), I was most disturbed by his use of dehumanizing language.
Calling someone who does a hurtful thing “subhuman,” is to invite disrespectful behavior.
No person is subhuman, no matter how much we may detest their behavior. It is dreadful that we have gotten accustomed to hearing such dehumanizing language on a regular basis from some of our highest governmental officials. We need to be calling on them to stop, not repeating it and spreading it around in other venues.
I expect better from my trusted local newspaper.
The Rev. Dr. Anita Farber-Robertson
Swampscott