Donald Trump’s words hit home for Muslim family: Your Say:

In a Voices piece, Shaheen Pasha wrote about how Donald Trump’s rhetoric frightened her 8-year-old son, a third-generation American (“Voices: Donald Trump is my little boy’s bogeyman”). Comments from Facebook are edited for clarity and grammar:

Shaheen Pasha, tell your son that this Southern hillbilly family from East Tennessee knows he is as American as we are. We despise what Donald Trump espouses. Trump is wrong, and I am sorry that the politician’s free speech is so laden with bigotry.

— Leanne McGinnis Kersey

Many Americans stand with Pasha and her family. We won’t let our country embrace un-American values just because a racist buffoon has a microphone.

— Kirsten Ott Palladino

The piece is a great summary of how what Trump says affects real people. Of course, he never bothers to worry about things like this.

— Steve Casper

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Letter to the editor:

What a wretched piece of “journalism” from Shaheen Pasha, a supposed teacher of journalism. Donald Trump is her little boy’s “bogeyman”?

That’s a pretty astute little boy to understand what’s going on in the world of politics. I guess between soccer and guitar lessons, he tunes into the news.

I suspect that Trump is, in fact, Pasha’s bogeyman, and she is responsible for frightening her child with her wild, unreasoning fear. Either way, dragging children into politics is as tacky as can be.

Shame on her and Paste BN for using children as political footballs. Journalism used to mean something. Now it’s just whatever pathetic rant a “journalist” can get published.

Kevin Garrett; Valencia, Calif.