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A plea for political correctness

On June 11, 2017 By Alfredo LanierIn Uncategorized9 Comments

Though condemned by the Right and the Left, a bit more political correctness would benefit us all A couple of years ago, during a luncheon at an idyllic countryside restaurant outside San Miguel, I inadvertently dropped the "R-bomb", when I referred to mentally disabled people as "retarded." A good friend of ours at the table, who has a …

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I'm a Cuban-American living with my husband of 50 years in a small ranch about five miles outside San Miguel de Allende. We retired here 15 years ago.

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