To the editor:

This is a quotation from one of Donald Trump’s first executive orders: “Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society.”

And these are a few of the words in the long list that the New York Times found flagged for avoidance in government documents and even school curricula (see NYT, March 7):

Accessible, barrier, bias, Black, disability, equality, female, genders, Hispanic, minority, immigrants, injustice, Native American, pollution, prejudice, privilege, pronoun, racism, sexuality, transgender, tribal, victim.

All administrations prefer saying things in one way or another; that’s normal. But what’s happening now goes far beyond that. It is out-and-out censorship, distortion of reality, denial of truth. Wake up, Americans! One of our precious, constitutionally guaranteed rights is under serious attack. Alert your friends and tell your congressperson to stand against this corruption of American freedom of speech.

Haskell Springer,

Lawrence