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From: berleant@cs.utexas.edu (Dan Berleant)
Newsgroups: news.misc,soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: RACIST JOKES
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Date: 22 Nov 88 17:29:43 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> <1082@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <370@eda.com>
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In article <370@eda.com> jim@eda.com (Jim Budler) writes:
>Step back a moment, and think. If this ends up in a court, the
>probable result is the end of news.

And why? Because net news sponsors anti-ethnic jokes!

If we(the usenet community) don't act respectable, we won't get respect.

If we don't regulate ourselves, someone else is going to regulate us.

Face it, anti-ethnic jokes are not respectable.

(I think the term 'anti-ethnic joke' sums things up a lot better
than 'ethnic jokes', don't you?)

Dan
berleant@cs.utexas.edu