Defining Moments

In response to Janice LeBrun’s commentary on the “Feiffer” cartoon (Letters, May 16):

My dictionary defines “satire” as: the use of ridicule or irony or sarcasm in speech or writing.

Feiffer wasn’t making “fun” of anything in his May 9 depiction of a trench coat kid.

I find it ironic that you saw the comic to be glorifying guns and low self-esteem; I saw it as the unfortunate and naked truth of how the children of our nation think in this day and age: that joining the ranks of neo-Nazism and glorifying Hitler are the only answers to their low self-esteem.

If you assume I’m being sarcastic when I say, “Stick to the color comics on Sunday; they’re more your speed” . . . you’re right.

CLAUDINE T. CLAUDIO

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