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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: news.misc,soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: Racist jokes
Message-ID: <691@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 24 Nov 88 01:59:47 GMT
References: <8030@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU. <1058@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu. <423@mccc.UUCP.
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In article <423@mccc.UUCP., pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
. In article <251@blake.acs.washington.edu. mcglk@blake.acs.washington.edu (Ken McGlothlen) writes:
. =I'm a thinking human being--I know the stereotypes, and know that they
. =don't necessarily hold.  
. 
. Good.  Then we don't have to worry about the cumulative effect of jokes
. like these on you.  But we do worry about the effect on others.  Look at
. World War II Germany to see the effect of not protesting stereotypes.

Where are these stupid people?  Not reading USENET, I hope.  But more
important, one of the greatest concerns a liberal has never himself,
or you, but "someone else" who isn't clever enough to think too clearly.

Maybe the people on USENET really aren't any smarter -- just better
educated.  And better education is no panacea for this problem.

. Maybe Templeton isn't a racist, per se, but if he encourages the posting
. of material that could influence people to have negative feelings about
. any group by reinforcing the stereotype, then he is contributing to the problem.
. 
. Pete Holsberg                   UUCP: {...!rutgers!}princeton!mccc!pjh

Mike Dukakis was running around the country giving speeches talking about
"rich people" in the same style as certain racists talk about blacks.
Maybe there should be laws preventing Dukakis' stereotyped, negative,
class-struggle promoting speeches?
-- 
Clayton E. Cramer
..!ames!pyramid!kontron!optilin!cramer