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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Re: "Offensive" jokes, minorities, r
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Date: Sun, 20-May-84 23:22:41 EDT
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> Guy Harris says: "It [BLKTRAN] was not in the *least* funny..."

Well, the part that said that the keyword for allocating new memory to
a process was "STEAL" sort of sapped the humor out of the rest of it pretty
quick.  Ed Hall brings up an excellent point when he says

	I've been around enough to know that the beliefs presented
	in BLKTRAN are taken quite seriously by a sizable minority of the
	population.

Implying that blacks, as a group, are thieves - considering that a sizable
minority of the population probably *does* think they're all thieves -
strikes me as offensive; the attitude behind BLKTRAN made even the arguably
funny parts cease to be funny.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy