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From: allen@sulaco.Sigma.COM (Allen Gwinn)
Newsgroups: news.misc,soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: Racist jokes
Message-ID: <374@sulaco.Sigma.COM>
Date: 27 Nov 88 13:58:33 GMT
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Reply-To: allen@sulaco.sigma.com (Allen Gwinn)
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In article <438@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>In article <691@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>=Mike Dukakis was running around the country giving speeches talking about
>="rich people" in the same style as certain racists talk about blacks.
>=Maybe there should be laws preventing Dukakis' stereotyped, negative,
>=class-struggle promoting speeches?
>
>Two points.  (1)  Bush was doing the same thing with "liberals".  (2) 
>Neither rich people nor liberals are PERSECUTED MINORITIES.
>
>I'm not attacking Brad, just his judgement.  Again, I'm concerned about
>anything that perpetuates NEGATIVE stereotypes about PERSECUTED
>MINORITIES.  (Sorry about the shouting, but it seemed like you weren't
>seeing those words when I wrote them in lower case.)

Oh... I see.  So just what group(s) do you consider to be PERSECUTED 
MINORITIES?  Suppose I am a RICH YUPPIE?  There are plenty of people 
(why, yes, I think you could find some of them here on the net) that
would put me down and make jokes about me... don't you agree?  But that
might be a way of life for me.  I might enjoy making money and living
it up.  I find the threat of "higher taxes for the rich" (brought on by
the liberals in congress) to be quite threatening... and yes, PERSECUTING.

I further think that RICH YUPPIE jokes perpetuates NEGATIVE stereotyping
about PERSECUTED RICH YUPPIES.  But I guess this is OK in your book, huh?

(Oh... by the way... sorry about the shouting, but I wanted to be sure
I used your examples wherever possible)

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Allen Gwinn  ...sulaco!allen        Disclaimer: The facts stated are my own.
"...I will not waste time proving this." - Hank Bovis