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From: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford)
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Subject: Re: Matt Crawford speaks out on RHF editorial policy
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Date: 21 Mar 89 21:16:08 GMT
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In-reply-to: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)

Brad says that either I have changed my mind about what may properly
appear in a moderated jokes forum, or I am being inconsistent.  While it
is the right of every person to change their mind or be inconsistent, in
this case I am not doing either.  If this were some other newsgroup I
would speculate on why Brad does not realize this.  Instead I will
explain.

Here are the writings of mine which he says make his case:

) >Hah!  Double hah!  This from the guy who begs for anti-liberal jokes
) >when he has to give in and post an anti-conservative joke, but passes on
) >the very feeblest of anti-liberal jokes with no added comment.
) >
) >And from the guy who posted an unrotated "joke" advocating assassination
) >of Jesse Jackson.
) >
) >This guy is as biased as they come, short of a white robe.  I fully
) >support the suggestion made earlier to replace him.

I said Brad was biased.  I implicitly said that the Jesse Jackson (some
say after the fact that it could just as well have been Jesse Helms)
joke should not have been posted unrotated.  I did not say or imply that
I thought offensive jokes should not be posted at all.



) >Dear, dear.  Does anyone remember the "auto-dialing Falwell" crusade?

This was funny and offensive to Brad.  I posted it.  It could have
caused financial harm *if* anybody construed it as instructions and
obeyed it.  The "Run, Jesse, Run!" would have caused much more harm if
it had been construed as instructions and obeyed.  What's the problem,
that mine wasn't ROT-13?  Neither was his.



Finally, in a much longer excerpt, Brad notes that I mentioned the
ethnic content of some jokes.  I did so, but only as part of enumeration
of all issues I saw which needed to be considered in the question of a
recall vote for the moderatorship.  I attributed the racial-content
issue to those who had been shouting about it; I did not offer a
judgement of my own on it.  See Brad's article <2963@looking.UUCP> for
the excerpt, and remember that he included only those parts that
mentioned the racism issue.


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Matt Crawford	     		matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu