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From: nmg@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Nancy M Gould)
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Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, and the Stupid (LONG)
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Date: 26 Nov 88 21:54:26 GMT
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In article <2229@ddsw1.MCS.COM> peggy@ddsw1.MCS.COM(Peggy Shambo) writes:
>
>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.


Probably because the Jews and the Blacks have been discriminated
against more than any other ethnic groups in this country.

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

Including Italians.

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

Including Russians.


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



Did any one here say it WAS okay?


The point is that if certain ethnic groups do not find such
jokes offensive, it ceases to be an issue.  But other ethnic
groups, having suffered a significant amount of discrimination
DO find such jokes offensive, and their wishes should be
respected.





-- 
"When the writer becomes the center of his attention, he becomes a nudnik.
And a nudnik who believes he's profound is even worse than just a plain
nudnik."                         --Isaac Bashevis Singer  (1904-   )
Nancy M. Gould