Pinthouse Pizza
Headline Insensitive
RECEIVED Tue., Sept. 9, 2014
Dear Editor,
You owe people with disabilities an apology [“Can't Please Everyone,” Feedback, Sept. 5]. You have a perfect right to format your paper in whatever manner you choose to do. But tell me: If a member of or an advocate for, say, the gay community or the African-American community wrote you concerning a legitimate concern about the format or content of your publication being potentially discriminatory toward their group, would you dismiss them with a headline that read: "Can't Please Everyone." I don't think so. People with disabilities have rights, concerns, and feelings just like everyone else. So, you do owe them an apology for your flippant, insensitive headline. I don't need an apology, I am a professional who can stand up for himself. But part of my professional duty and privilege is to stand up for the rights, concerns, and feelings of those who cannot always stand up for themselves.
You owe people with disabilities an apology [“Can't Please Everyone,” Feedback, Sept. 5]. You have a perfect right to format your paper in whatever manner you choose to do. But tell me: If a member of or an advocate for, say, the gay community or the African-American community wrote you concerning a legitimate concern about the format or content of your publication being potentially discriminatory toward their group, would you dismiss them with a headline that read: "Can't Please Everyone." I don't think so. People with disabilities have rights, concerns, and feelings just like everyone else. So, you do owe them an apology for your flippant, insensitive headline. I don't need an apology, I am a professional who can stand up for himself. But part of my professional duty and privilege is to stand up for the rights, concerns, and feelings of those who cannot always stand up for themselves.
Philip Drexler