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From: crane@fortune.UUCP (John Crane)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: "Gay Blade" joke
Message-ID: <3254@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-May-84 16:42:48 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  7 16:42:48 1984
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No Hitler didn't kill 6 million Jews. That is, he didn't think of them
as Jews or even people. They were thought of as an impure strain -- weeds
to be uprooted from a garden. Jokes have little to do with the issue
at hand; labeling an INDIVIDUAL and then making certain assumptions
about that label and then dealing with the label and not the individuals
has much to do with the issue at hand.

To anybody who objects to my reply to the gay blade joke, I strongly
suggest that you reread my reply, and as you do, apply this test to
yourself as objectively as you can: "Is there anything distinguishing
this guy Crane's reply from anything else I have seen in net.jokes.d.
Is he saying anything new or is he only saying what I want him or
expect him to say?"

What I am asking you to do is treat my reply as an invidual response
from one indiviual and don't lump it together with all the objections
you've seen to minority on the net in the past. If you can do this, my
point will have been served.