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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: RACIST JOKES
Message-ID: <687@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 19:25:34 GMT
References: <8030@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU. <1058@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu. <666@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov.
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In article <666@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov., shore@ncifcrf.gov (Melinda Shore) writes:
. In article <1223@fig.bbn.com. rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
. .And if the person doesn't stop, then the majority should force them?
. .Sorry, you're wrong.  Read the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
. 
. The First Amendment gives Brad Templeton the right to include racist,
. sexist, denigrating jokes in rec.humor.funny.  What I find appalling,
. profoundly appalling, is that we as a community tolerate it.  There
. is nothing funny about racial, religious, or sexual stereotyping.
. When somebody tells a racist joke at work, what do you do?  Do you
. let the teller know that the joke is offensive and not amusing, or do
. you laugh?  Each of us has a responsibility to make our community a

I usually don't laugh -- sometimes I leave the room, if the joke is
offensive enough -- but suggesting that someone put pressure on the
moderator of a group through his employer is a sure way of making 
people VERY angry.

. better place.  I don't see that tolerating hatred contributes toward
. that.
. -- 
. Melinda Shore                                    shore@ncifcrf.gov

There's a lot of stereotypical humor -- and not all of it is racist,
ethnocentric, or sexist.  But if you want to make it go away, getting
all huffy about it WON'T WORK.

-- 
Clayton E. Cramer
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