Brattleboro Reformer
One of the values of a newspaper's letters section is that it can open the mouths of fools, says
Brattleboro Reformer managing editor
Kathryn Casa. "Why is this important? Because ignorance, bigotry, sexism and racism fester and multiply in dark places and small minds." Casa heard from readers after publishing
a letter (second one) from a man who said that "Jews are running the town, and the state, and the country for that matter." Casa writes: "Bigotry and racism are the mold in our society. ...Leave them in the dark, and
they grow into the heinous hate crimes that splinter our society. Only by bringing them into the open can we expose and eliminate them."
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Reader: "Do you seek to generate controversy at any cost?" (Reformer)
