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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
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Subject: Re: "Offensive" jokes, minorities, real men, &c.
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Date: Thu, 10-May-84 13:01:24 EDT
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	BLKTRN was the "high level design specification of a programming 
language". It could not do addition and used non-standard English for keywords.
It was supposed to be useful illiterate black people.

	The ROT 13 encoder was broken at the site in Texas that
sent the joke, so the submitter said that it might be offensive
to some people in the title.  

	Saying that some people were offened falls short of the mark.
An analogy would be how weak the word "uncomfortable" is in:
"Life would be uncomfortable for the survivors of a nuclear war."

	There were many angry flames and, importantly, some sites
had some newsgroups removed.  

	F