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From: david@mirror.TMC.COM (David Chesler)
Newsgroups: news.misc,soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: Censorship and Re: RACIST JOKES
Message-ID: <20128@mirror.TMC.COM>
Date: 23 Nov 88 17:16:26 GMT
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In article <262@uport.UUCP> dougm@uport.UUCP (Doug Moran) writes:
>I haven't seen something get so out of hand in a long time.
>I think that it's funny that:
This does seem like more fury than the joke deserves, but perhaps this
was a last-straw type thing, particularly coming at the 50th anniversary
of Kristallnacht.

>2) No enraged Scots have charged into the fray.  And don't go
>telling me that Celts are less short tempered than Jews; I
>*am* a Celt.  Maybe Celts are more used to laughing at themselves.
>Who knows?

  Nancy, Jonathan, DavidM, Betsy, whoever else was anti-joke, what
offended you?  
  Was it the stereotyping (as cheap) or the murder?  (Or something else?)

              -- David Chesler (david@prism.tmc.com, mirror!david)

 Repetition of where I stand:
         There can exist offensive jokes.
         IMHO this wasn't one of them.
         "Just don't read them" isn't valid, as the libel is capable
                  of doing damage.