Xref: utzoo soc.culture.jewish:8628 news.misc:2326 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!eagle.ukc.ac.uk!icdoc!qmc-cs!flash From: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan) Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.misc Subject: Re: Do ethnic jokes CAUSE bigotry? Message-ID: <777@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> Date: 6 Dec 88 16:18:59 GMT References: <1748YZKCU@CUNYVM> <275@acheron.UUCP> <130@verdix.verdix.com> <284@acheron.UUCP> <4204@cs.utexas.edu> <8814@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <679@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> Reply-To: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan) Followup-To: rec.humor.d Organization: EE Dept, Queen Mary College, ULondon E1-4NS Lines: 16 In article <679@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> shore@ncifcrf.gov (Melinda Shore) writes: >[] >I don't think racist jokes cause racism, in general. What I don't >doubt for a second is that toleration of racist jokes puts a stamp of >approval on racism, and that caring communities should tolerate >neither. One bit of data: in England [where racist jokes are illegal] racist comments are far more common acceptable among the upper class than they are in the States, where they are not. Can't say much about the other classes, but racist graffitti is more common in the parts of England I've seen than in America. -- From: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan) Reply-To: sheridan@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk Portal,MacNet: FlashsMom