Speaking of corrosive stereotypes [Baldo letter]
Bobbie Gottschalk, Washington
Is there no one monitoring the comics in your newspaper these days? On April 7, 8 and 9, "Baldo" showed two workers in a store, one lighter-skinned and the other darker-skinned. Guess which one was portrayed as lazy.
This is how prejudice works. You make it acceptable to laugh at jokes about a targeted group. Couching prejudice in the form of a comic doesn't make it funny.
Full tilt [Edith Pritchett letter]
Evan Zeppos, Brookfield, Wisconsin
Having majored in pinball during my first year of college, I noticed that Edith Pritchett's April 7 editorial cartoon, "Let's play tariff pinball!," left off one very important part of the game: the tilt signal.
I've played pinball for more than 50 years. Every pinball machine has a tilt mechanism that shuts down the game if it is pushed around too much.
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