March 28, 2024

Response to "On Riding RIPTA"

Posted

I am writing to respond to the letter titled “On Riding RIPTA” in your June 2018 edition. The writer, Tim Fratelo, used this as his personal diatribe to spew out his classist, sexist, and overall insane views on the world. Calling riders of the bus “infantile” and “ignorant” is ridiculous and saying women’s “comical quest for equality” is just a dangerous viewpoint. It doesn’t take a Ph.D. to understand that Tim is not a fan of less fortunate people. I can imagine him yelling at fellow riders on the bus and telling kids to stay off his lawn. Instead of passing judgment on his fellow townies, maybe a way to release everyone’s stress would be to have some compassion. Treating others as humans and not referring to them as animalistic caricatures of whatever preconceived notions that you’ve cemented in your head would be a better tactic than writing a letter. There are spelling errors, grammatical errors, and there is a capitalized letter that shows up in the middle of a sentence. The writing and viewpoints are of the same quality.

-Ryan Kowal

East Providence

Comments

No comments on this item Please log in to comment by clicking here

Share!
Truly local news delivered to every home in town