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From: peggy@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Peggy Shambo)
Newsgroups: alt.flame,news.misc,soc.culture.jewish,rec.humor.d
Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, and the Stupid (LONG)
Message-ID: <2229@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 25 Nov 88 06:05:22 GMT
References: <Nov.22.16.54.04.1988.3254@topaz.rutgers.edu> <1092@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <Nov.23.11.54.06.1988.29466@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: peggy@ddsw1.MCS.COM(Peggy Shambo)
Organization: Traveller's Aid, Mundelein, IL
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Okay, okay, okay.

I have been wading thru megabytes of argument re:  ethnic/racial
discrimination and/or slurs.  Seems that only the Jewish and Black
(with strong emphasis on the former) voices are crying out the 
loudest.

I don't hear anyone crying out about the Italian jokes.

I don't hear anyone crying about the Russian jokes.

I certainly didn't cry out about either the Catholic or Irish jokes.
I found them humorous.  They did not denigrate my ethnicity nor cultural
or religious background.

Why is it considered "okay" to tell certain <ethnic> jokes, but not
others?  


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Peg Shambo                | The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts
peggy@ddsw1.mcs.com       | working the moment you get up in the morning
                          | and doesn't stop until you get to work.