Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!basser!john
From: john@basser.oz (John Mackin)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: RACIST JOKES
Summary: Ah HA!
Message-ID: <1635@basser.oz>
Date: 23 Nov 88 08:48:46 GMT
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Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Sydney, Australia
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In article <977@lzfme.att.com> brs@lzfme.UUCP (xmrj5-B.SCHWARTZ) writes:

> Do not be deceived by the numbers.  Some of us who are deeply
> offended have kept silent, because we have been taught that as a
> minority our voice will not be heard unless the majority wants it to
> be heard.  The rights of the minority, apparently do not count.

Oh, WOW!  So now we've gone from the silent majority concept
to the silent _minority_ concept!  What a chortle.

> The white, christian, male support that Brad gets makes
> him feel justified.

I'm not white.  I sure as _hell_ am not christian!  So, I'm male.
One out of three ain't a problem.  And I support Brad 100%, he's
doing a great job!

> The if you don't like it, leave it attitude
> (Don't subscribe if you are offended)  does not address the issue.

Of course it does.  There are pornographic bookstores in many major
cities.  If you don't like pornographic publications, as long as
no one forces you to go into the bookstores, WHERE IS THE PROBLEM?

All this ``people have to be protected from themselves'' business
really sickens me.  I think I need to quote Plato (thanks, Alan):

Plato, `The Republic' (page 405, Stephanus edition):

	'And the prevalence of indiscipline and disease in a community
leads, does it not, to the opening of law courts and surgeries in large
numbers, and law and medicine begin to give themselves airs, especially
when they are taken with great seriousness even by free men.'
	'That is bound to happen.'
	'And when not only the lower classes and manual workers, but
also those who have some pretensions to a liberal education, need skilled
doctors and lawyers, that is a pretty conclusive proof that the education
in a state is disgracefully bad.  For is it not a strikingly disgraceful
sign of a bad education if one has to seek justice at the hands of others
as one's masters and judges because one lacks it in oneself?'

John Mackin, Basser Department of Computer Science,
             University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

john@basser.oz.AU (john%basser.oz.AU@UUNET.UU.NET)
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