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From: lab@qubix.UUCP (Q-Bick)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: "Offensive" jokes, minorities, real men, &c.
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Date: Mon, 21-May-84 13:44:10 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 21 13:44:10 1984
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>I have the right (I might even say the *duty*) to criticize pernicious
>beliefs that I encounter; couching the beliefs in the form of a `joke'
>doesn't give them one iota of immunity.  If your attitude is, ``If he
>can't take a joke, f*** him,'' then I guess that I'm hitting a nerve
>to evoke such hostility from you.  I'll not attempt to deny you the
>right to express your beliefs, whether as a joke or as serious discourse,
>but I won't deny anyone else, including myself, the right to confront them.
>
>It's the person who feels that humor has to involve degradation who
>needs to see a shrink.
>				-Ed Hall
>				decvax!randvax!edhall

How about seeing this extended to those who find it funny to degrade God
or Jesus Christ?
-- 
			The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford
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