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From: nmg@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Nancy M Gould)
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Subject: Re: RACIST JOKES
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Date: 22 Nov 88 19:23:26 GMT
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In article <362@sulaco.Sigma.COM> allen@sulaco.sigma.com (Allen Gwinn) writes:
>In article <1082@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> nmg@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Nancy M Gould) writes:
>>In article <347@sulaco.UUCP> allen@sulaco.Sigma.COM (Allen Gwinn) writes:
>
>>>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.
>
>So I gather might gather from your response (assuming that Brad was not
>his own employer) that, logically, you would support Brad if he were to
>sue JEDR for slander or defamation should JEDR's actions result in the
>loss of job or clientele?  After all, it would be Brad's right...





Of course.  In this country anybody can sue anybody for anything.
Unlike most of the people on the net, I realize that this issue
is a highly controversial.  You can't find a black and white
answer to a problem that is not black and white.  That is
why we have a court system.












-- 
"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