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From: aer@alice.UucP (D. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: pseudo-joke offensive of blacks, liberals
Message-ID: <4755@alice.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 17:00:15 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 30 17:00:15 1985
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In article <585@cylixd.UUCP>, one Becky Bates (becky@cylixd.UUCP) wrote this...

> I was driving home the other night and saw this Chevorolet in
> front of me that had been re-painted.  Some black people were
> driving it, and a lot of people in the South or North (if they
> really admit to it) know how much certain groups of folks like
> Cadallics (sp). Painted on the back was "Chevrolac", just
> reinforcing the stereotype in peoples minds.  I think it was a
> joke on the people that owned the car more than anything.

The Subject line read like this:
Subject: ON A CAR - offensive to Black people, Liberals (ROT13)

Now wait a minute. Besides her quoted "Chevrolac," Ms. Bates didn't
manage to spell 'Chevrolet' or 'Cadillac' correctly at all. Odds
are, then- becky didn't think a whole lot when she wrote her piece.

What ever "certain groups" could Becky be insinuating? If we disregard
the title of the article, it could be anything from fat, heartless
capitalists subjugating the proletariat, to Communist dictators. Plenty
of people like Cadillacs. They are collectively as good, evil, smart,
stupid as the rest of humanity. GM can't help that.

Perhaps the Cadillac, promoted as a luxury car, is something that
a lot of people look up to. Ms. Bates says that the "Chevrolac"
painted on the back reinforced "the stereotype" in people's minds.
_What_ stereotype? And why is her article "offensive to Liberals" ?
And what kind of joke is it anyway?

I think the excerpted article above was a joke on the person who
wrote it more than anything else. The way her article was written, Ms. Bates
paints herself to be a racist, an anti-Liberal-because-she's-a-racist,
and someone who gets stereotypes from the wackiest places. (... besides
a pathalogical misspeller.) At least this "joke" didn't put me to sleep :-).
Pardon me for un-rot13'ing it.
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