Xref: utzoo news.misc:1974 soc.culture.jewish:8186 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu!nmg From: nmg@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Nancy M Gould) Newsgroups: news.misc,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Re: RACIST JOKES Message-ID: <1082@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> Date: 21 Nov 88 17:30:22 GMT References: <8030@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1058@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <1060@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <1057@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.ed <347@sulaco.UUCP> Reply-To: nmg@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Nancy M Gould) Distribution: na Organization: Mathematical Sciences Computer Lab, Columbus, OH Lines: 37 In article <347@sulaco.UUCP> allen@sulaco.Sigma.COM (Allen Gwinn) writes: >In article <1076@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> nmg@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Nancy M Gould) writes: > > >>For the last time, it is not okay to engage in any kind of humor that >>comes at the expense of another person's feelings--regardless of which >>catagory they represent! > >Ok... if its NOT OKAY, then what do you feel should be done about people >who persist in posting racist humor? Do you feel it is OK for JEDR to >threaten to contact Brad's employer? I think that it is OK for JEDR to do anything that is in accordance with U.S. Law. If Brad's legal rights (i.e., freedom of speech, etc.) are being threatened, the courts will decide. -- "When the writer becomes the center of his attention, he becomes a nudnik. And a nudnik who believes he's profound is even worse than just a plain nudnik." --Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904- ) Nancy M. Gould