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From: rjv@ihdev.UUCP (ron vaughn)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: offensive to tom channic
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 16:04:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 22 16:04:53 1985
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*** EGASSEM RUOY HTIW ENIL SIHT ECALPER ***

>I can usually handle most of the cheap, disgusting, tasteless
>trash I have to wade through to find a pearl of humor every few
>months or so,  but one genre of trash I cannot tolerate is
>ETHIOPIAN jokes.  There is absolutely nothing funny about
>fellow human beings starving to death through no fault of their own.
>
>If you must submit such tripe PLEASE label it with "Off. to Ethiopia"
>or "Ethiopian Joke", etc.
>
>Tom Channic ihnp4!pur-ee!uiucdcs!channic
>University of Illinois


awww, give me a FB.  sure, you  can handle it if we make fun of lepers,
or old people, or sick people, or mentally handicapped, or overweight,
or dumb, or ethnic, or gays, or honkeys, or dead babies.  those are fine,
you don't mind.  but ethiopians!!  my goodness, now THAT's where we should
draw the line.  if this isn't hypocrisy in action, i don't know what
is.  you either don't mind jokes that make fun of people (and almost all
do) or you mind.  if we stopped every joke that offended someone there
would be no jokes left.  if i draw the line at "jokes about texans"
are you going to put "warning, offensive to texans" etc. on the
top of all your texan jokes, or maybe rot them, just for me?

the "i like dead baby jokes and black jokes, but don't tell gay jokes
or overweight jokes" type attitude is full of shit.  we've all hashed
this out before in net.jokes, and like the last 18 times this subject
has been brought up, people will continue to post what they please,
because you can rarely please everyone with a single joke.


	(and now, a curse...)
	may the mascot at your daughter's high school be a dead rabbit,

		ron vaughn	...!ihnp4!ihdev!rjv




>Perhaps a better solution would be a $100 fine 100% transferable
>to donations for the cause..
>
and i suppose every time you chuckle about a joke about overweight peolple
you send $100 to weight watchers, laugh at a polish jokes, $100 to
some polish fund, moron joke, give yourself $100 B-).........