Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!amdahl!ames!killer!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Expansion of rec.humor.funny to other networks Message-ID: <13793@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 19 Mar 89 19:08:18 GMT References: <439@corpane.UUCP> <3100@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <9773@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <784@twwells.uucp> <3459@ficc.uu.net> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX Lines: 28 In article <3459@ficc.uu.net> jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) writes: >Nonsense. The statement, "All blacks are lazy" is racist. Period. >Full stop. If you agree with that stereotype, you're a racist, too. >And if you find racist humor funny, what does that say about you? Lack of sense of humor alert ... There is an entire variety of humor which uses stereotypes in a perfectly acceptible fashion. My favorite example is from Richard Pryor - "Do you know why Black men hold onto their dicks all the time? Because whites already stole everything else" Gallagher and his "I'd wash my hair but it is just going to fall out", and Victor Bono's "Fat Man's Prayer". It is racist only if you buy into the stereotype. If you don't laugh at "I always wanted to be an Engineer but they told me I'd have to have half my brain removed first" you need to have YOUR brain checked. -- John F. Haugh II +-Quote of the Week:------------------- VoiceNet: (214) 250-3311 Data: -6272 | "Do not drink and bake" InterNet: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US | -- Arnold Swartzenegger UucpNet : !killer!rpp386!jfh +--------------------------------------