Xref: utzoo alt.flame:3171 news.misc:2010 soc.culture.jewish:8250 rec.humor.d:1145 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!labrea!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!clong From: clong@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) Newsgroups: alt.flame,news.misc,soc.culture.jewish,rec.humor.d Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, and the Stupid (LONG) Message-ID: Date: 23 Nov 88 02:55:46 GMT References: <1092@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 32 Let me make one thing clear: I respect the opinions of Nancy Gould and company. I completely disagree with these opinions, as my last posting shows. If my posting has offended the parties involved, then I have done what your postings have done to me. If I have not seriously addressed the issues involved, it is because there is nothing to seriously address, i.e. I have addressed the issues in the only manner they deserved to be addressed, to be made fun of. How any rational human being could seriously consider for even a moment that rec.humor.funny should be censored (yes CENSORED) is completely beyond me. The censoring of any point of view, no matter how offensive you find it, is *never* called for. To do so would justify the burning of Jewish literature during WWII (because the Nazi's found it offensive), to do so would justify the censoring of certain forms of literature in South Africa (because the white supremists find it offensive). I did not call any of the parties involved stupid (I called comments stupid), Nancy et. al. are obviously both intelligent and sane (though, I will admit, I have to keep telling myself this over and over again when I read what they wrote). As to calling David Makowsky and Betsy Schwarz bigots, well they ARE bigots. White, male, christian support, indeed! *smack* -- Chris Long Mathematics Department Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903