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From: jcb@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Julian Bradfield)
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Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, and the Stupid (LONG)
Summary: Joke-ism
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Date: 25 Nov 88 09:44:29 GMT
References: <Nov.22.16.54.04.1988.3254@topaz.rutgers.edu> <1092@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <Nov.22.21.55.17.1988.1278@topaz.rutgers.edu> <429@mccc.UUCP>
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In article <429@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:

>In article <Nov.22.21.55.17.1988.1278@topaz.rutgers.edu> clong@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes:

>=To do so would justify the
>=burning of Jewish literature during WWII (because the Nazi's found
>=it offensive), to do so would justify the censoring of certain
>=forms of literature in South Africa (because the white supremists
>=find it offensive).

>Now, now.  Let's compare apples with apples.  Surely you can't equate
>religious and intellectual works with jokes?  You can??  How sad.

Just out of idle curiosity, what is this inherent difference between
jokes and "religious and intellectual works" that makes it OK to
suppress one and not the other?