I've had it.

I'm tired of seeing "community" abused.

It has been going on for years. We hear it all the time.

The black community.

The Jewish community.

The GLBT community

Fine, these are all groups of people who share some common trait, but do they really have the level of commonality and cohesion to be considered a "community? That can be argued either way, especially since the word has taken on an expanded meaning in recent years.

But tonight I heard the most egregious abuse of the word "community" that I've ever encountered.

On one of our local stations tonight, the reporter dutifully reported that a task force to study ways to decrease convenience store robberies included "representatives of the convenience store community".

Convenience store community?

What next -- Convenience Store-Americans?

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