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From: faustus@ucbvax.UUCP (Wayne Christopher)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: "Gay Blade" joke
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Date: Sat, 5-May-84 16:39:01 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  5 16:39:01 1984
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To people who think that telling ethnic jokes encourages
discrimination, etc against those people: do you really believe
that the reason the Nazis killed 6 million Jews was that
somebody was telling Jewish jokes?  That the reason blacks were
slaves before 1860 was that some Europeans 200 years earlier
told some black jokes?  This is absurd, and I agree with whoever
it was who said that all this shows is that people who protest
against ethnic jokes are precicely the sort of people who hear
an ethnic joke, and then go out and see some member of that
ethnic group and think of the joke.  These people feel guilty
because they are unable to disassociate a little humor from
reality, and flame at the people who make the humor. Those of us
who don't mind a bit of ethnic humor read an ethnic joke,
chuckly perhaps, and then forget it, never once imagining that
it might apply to people of that group who we actually know. 
Those of you who are offended by these jokes should think hard
about why you are so offended before you flame at people who,
unlike yourselves, are able to keep a bit of humor in
perspective.

	Wayne