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From: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: news.misc,soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: Racist jokes
Message-ID: <373@eda.com>
Date: 25 Nov 88 17:12:20 GMT
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In article <670@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> shore@ncifcrf.gov (Melinda Shore) writes:
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| Let me get this straight ...
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| You all are saying that racism is okay as long as it's funny, and that
| those of who object should look the other way?
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| Melinda Shore                                    shore@ncifcrf.gov
| NCI Supercomputer Facility              ..!uunet!ncifcrf.gov!shore

No, absolutely NOT. What we are all saying is that we don't agree
that a joke containing ethic elements is racist. 

Or at least that is my opinion of what we are saying. And the fact
that racist individuals might like ethnic jokes for racist reasons
does not make an ethic joke a racist joke.

That's the whole problem in a nutshell. *You* have decided that an
ethnic joke is racist, therefore *you* have decided everyone
who likes ethnic jokes *must* be racist. Therefore you make
statements such as the one above, which reminds me of
the old "Have you stopped beating your wife, yes, or no?"
joke.


Truths:
1) I don't believe in racism.
2) I like ethnic jokes.


You appear to believe 2) negates 1).

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