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From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: "Offensive" jokes, minorities, real men, &c.
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Date: Thu, 31-May-84 21:09:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 31 21:09:24 1984
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> > And certainly reading jokes like this is not going to make a
> > racist out of somebody who isn't one already.
> 
> No, but telling these jokes may reinforce already existing racism.  The
> groups in which these jokes are told may think that it's OK to tell
> these jokes because, after all, they're based in truth...

Right.  Surely everyone's heard about Hitler and his famous Jewish Joke Book!
-- 

    Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin
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