Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!ut-sally!crandell From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: "Offensive" jokes, minorities, real men, &c. Message-ID: <337@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-May-84 21:09:24 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.337 Posted: Thu May 31 21:09:24 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 01:07:44 EDT References: <1791@randvax.UUCP> <811@ucbvax.UUCP> <1939@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 14 > > 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 {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell