Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!ssbn!bill From: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: RACIST JOKES Message-ID: <259@ssbn.WLK.COM> Date: 24 Nov 88 06:16:56 GMT References: <7997@nsc.nsc.com> Reply-To: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) Followup-To: junk Distribution: na Organization: W.L. Kennedy Jr. and Associates, Pipe Creek, TX Lines: 62 In article <7997@nsc.nsc.com> nessus@nsc.nsc.com.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit) writes: > > I have seen a lot of shouting back and forth on this subject, and >something that just occurred to me is this: Why are there no Scotspeople >getting upset? I'm (for a Texan) nearly pure blood Scottish, have and wear the Kennedy tartan. That's immaterial, just establishing credentials. >Why is it that everyone seems to tolerate jokes/riddles >that portray the Scottish as bestial, close-minded tight-wads who wear >skirts and would murder someone in return for having to pay for a meal? First, as pointed out by someone else, if the Scot was what the stereotype would have you believe, he would certainly never have killed his dinner companion. He might have tortured him until retribution was forthcoming, but murder would have been an act of desparation. From my point of view I don't like the references to beastiality, I'm amused about the kilt references (their WW-I and WW-II adversaries called them "ladys from hell") or by the references to being "thrifty". It's as simple as having a sense of humor and being able to laugh at what is clearly ridiculous or outrageous. Thus far (by my estimate) we're running about thirty to five with those who can and those who can not. For those who can not, I offer my sympathy. Gosh, can you imagine not being able to laugh at a Jewish joke just because you are Jewish and fragile? Worse, can you imagine being insulted by an joke just because you empathisize with s? Naw, folks, it's time to stop the flames and pity the poor folks who haven't figured out even after it was force fed. I might point out that it was fed without force until they didn't get it, now what a pity that they *still* don't get it. Let's leave them alone, they'll go away until the moon's full again and they have something else to grouse about. If we let this stretch through the full moon it will just wear on and on... > What if the punch line had been "Scottish ventriloquist found ... in alley." Well he couldn't have been strangled, he'd have had to have been shot. I have some classmates who were killed on the USS Liberty but that probably makes me more of a racist, more in favor of genocide, masiltov (excuse the spelling, goyish kopf). > I do realize that Jewish people have been persecuted for a LONG >time; it would probably be difficult to find some group that has not >been persecuted at some point. You bet! And that kind of (or any kind of) hatred is WRONG and worthy of opposition and condemnation by any self respecting society. JEDR and the other four are just looking through the wrong end of the microscope and the rest of us have become weary of trying to be diplomatic trying to eliminate their cellophane navels. > I'm sure I'll be called racist because of this article... Well the Scots are not a protected class, so blaze away, we won't whine. >-- > Kchula-Rrit -- Bill Kennedy usenet {killer,att,rutgers,sun!daver,uunet!bigtex}!ssbn!bill internet bill@ssbn.WLK.COM