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From: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
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Subject: Re: Racist jokes
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Date: 25 Nov 88 03:26:42 GMT
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Excuse me, but I'm sometimes viewed as a member of the human race, and
every time Brad puts a joke in about humans, I view it as human racist
humor.

Obviously, he must stop this at once or I will make vague threats.

Can we stop all this bickering now?  99% (or more) of the people
reading the jokes seem to know that it was not racist (which is the
wrong word to use in this context anyhow).  The remaining 1% (or less)
seem intent on making a big issue out of something that really doesn't
merit it.

In fact, take the postings of Mr. Richmond & company, replace "Jewish"
by "female," and I think we have Mark E. Smith's Greatest Hits, right
down to the classic "I'll contact your employer if you don't post what
I want."  

Could we refrain from multiple hundred posted flames on this now? Please?
-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
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