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From: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: traditional values - offensive to Extremists of any sort
Message-ID: <141@midas.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 13:57:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 13 13:57:41 1986
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References: <119@midas.UUCP> <1094@druxo.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
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And now, for a mild response to a insulting article:

In article <1094@druxo.UUCP> nap@druxo.UUCP (ParsonsNA) writes:
>> Actually, the real problem here is that people on the net just can't get
>> used to the idea that net.jokes is a totally open house.
>
>Oh?  "Totally open" except for comments about the offensiveness of some
>jokes?

The newsgroup is titled "net.jokes". That means it's for jokes. Within
that one, minor restriction, it's a totally open house.

The forum for comments about the offensiveness of jokes is net.jokes.d.
No one's expression is being limited.

If you insist on reading my statements without realizing their context,
you will never make sense of them. Don't you *want* to understand what I
mean?

>>                                                          Didn't think
>> something you saw on it was funny? Tough. Don't read it then.
>
>Would you be among those that also advocate that if blacks (or women, or
>whatever) don't like discriminatory behavior directed against them, they
>should stay away from places and people where it is found (i.e., stay in
>their place)?

No.

I'm still trying to figure out what this apparently gratuitous insult has
to do with the content of net.jokes.

					Jeff Winslow
					"Why do you hate the Socratic method?"