Xref: utzoo news.misc:2093 soc.culture.jewish:8363 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!TAURUS.BITNET!shani From: shani@TAURUS.BITNET Newsgroups: news.misc,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Re: Racist jokes Summary: NO! Message-ID: <904@taurus.BITNET> Date: 27 Nov 88 12:23:05 GMT References: <8030@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1058@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Organization: Tel-Aviv Univesity Math and CS school, Israel Lines: 17 In article <670@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov>, shore@ncifcrf.BITNET writes: > Let me get this straight ... > > 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? > -- > Melinda Shore shore@ncifcrf.gov Sorry Melinda but you didn't get it straight ... The point is the stereotypes are not about REAL PEOPLE (as, obviously, nobody feets into them...), Now, racism is when someone try to force stereotypes on real people, and treat them as the stereotype, raether then as themselfs, so if you are offended by a ethnic joke, the only one who imply racism on you, is YOURSELF! O.S.