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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Rock Hudson/AIDS joke haters please read (it is short)
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 04:09:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 22 04:09:30 1985
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> Here is a short excerpt from a letter I sent to STellA (sp?):
> 
> To sum it up:  If you don't want Rock Hudson/AIDS jokes told around you,
> you are completely within your rights to request said abstenance in your
> presence; and anyone who does not honor your wishes is an inconsiderate
> #%#@$%.  If you don't want to read such jokes in a \public/, \open/,
> \anarchistic-by-nature/ forum such as net.jokes, then [quietly] use your
> 'n' key, [silently] don't read at all, or post to \net.news.group/ requesting
> a special subgroup of net.jokes that you won't have to read (we got and kept
> around for a while a net.jokes.db for dead baby and other highly offensive
> jokes, so don't tell me it can't work).
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> -- 
> alias: Curtis Jackson	...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd mgnetp ]!burl!rcj

I have read most of the objections to the Rock Hudson jokes, and I think
you're missing the point.  Most of those who did object were not complaining
about the presence of the jokes on the network, they were complaining about
the fact that people could make up these jokes and tell them at all.  Rock
Hudson was a real human being who died painfully, and who knew that he didn't
have long to live.  How can people treat this as funny?  If you knew you
were about to die, would you want people laughing about that fact?  I just
hope that Rock Hudson, his relatives, and his friends haven't had the
misfortune of hearing any of these jokes.  At least dead baby jokes aren't
about any particular, real dead babies.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..."

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