I have a most peculiar complaint about Mrs. Hobson's complaint [see excerpt above]. Nigger, kike, and sheeny were the words she found missing from in "All in the Family," which, according to her, made the show dishonest. But there is another word some bigots use—some liberal bigots. You know the word they use. The one word, the hideous word. Don't even print it.

No, Mrs. Hobson, not nigger. Schwartze.

Mrs. Hobson didn't mind our not using that word. Not, I expect because she knows Archie Bunker isn't Jewish: she did acknowledge his use of the word "yenta." I'll offer another reason later….

What … is Mrs. Hobson's motive in taking out pad and pencil? Does she feel a sense of proprietorship, of having been the first, and therefore the authority, on the brave new ground of striking-out-at-bigotry? Have we poached on her unconsciously owned territory and must we...