“Cleansing” a term that masks brutal reality

A Denver Post editorial ran under this headline the other day:

The latest religious cleansing in the Mideast

Feel free to click that to read the Post’s opinion. I agree with it, but it prompted this response from The Smith Compound in the form of a letter to the editor:

We should purge the euphemism “cleansing” from our collective vocabulary when what we really mean is persecution, extortion, and murder. There is nothing truly religious or clean about what you described in that editorial. You already know that; just tell it like it is.