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From: abc@brl-smoke.ARPA (Brint Cooper )
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.women
Subject: Re: JAP jokes
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Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 00:19:19 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  3 00:19:19 1986
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G Wilson Shafer, Professor Emeretis of The Johns Hopkins University and
an authority on humor pointed out many years ago that a great deal of
humor is related to feelings of superiority of one sort or another.
This, of course, explains much about ethinic jokes, 'moron' jokes, jokes
about politicians, etc.

'JAP' jokes seem funny because of the derision which they heap upon the
daughters of overly-protective Jewish mothers and overly-indulgent
Jewish fathers.  (I am NOT Jewish.)  That they are sometimes told by
Jewish women does not necessarily refute this; these women may be
laughing at their friends' parents.  And, by the way, if a black person
tells a "nigger joke," does that make such a "joke" non-racist?  I think
not.



-- 
Brint Cooper

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