Xref: utzoo soc.culture.jewish:8594 news.misc:2278 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!pitt!cisunx!adams3 From: adams3@cisunx.UUCP (Larry Adams) Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.misc Subject: Re: Do ethnic jokes CAUSE bigotry? Message-ID: <14154@cisunx.UUCP> Date: 5 Dec 88 18:54:31 GMT References: <1748YZKCU@CUNYVM> <275@acheron.UUCP> <130@verdix.verdix.com> <284@acheron.UUCP> <4204@cs.utexas.edu> Reply-To: adams3@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Larry Adams) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys Lines: 23 In article <4204@cs.utexas.edu> berleant@cs.utexas.edu (Dan Berleant) writes: >Do ethnic jokes cause bigotry? > >Sadly, the answer appears be a definite yes. > >A number of anti-semitic slurs were sent in reaction to rather >moderate posts. > >Dan umm, i don't agree. discussion of two particular ethnic jokes lead to a heated discussion about racism, and two individuals sent remarks which were interpreted as racist & bigoted. notice how this was phrased, however. there were "a number" of remarks (although i suppose that two may be considered a number), they were "anti-semitic slurs" (i feel they fall under the category of harassment rather than anti-semitism), and they were in reply to a "rather moderate post". all in the eye of the beholder, i suppose. larry adams standard disclaimers apply