Xref: utzoo news.misc:2155 soc.culture.jewish:8441 rec.humor.d:1229 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!wayback!atux01!gal From: gal@atux01.UUCP (G. Levine) Newsgroups: news.misc,soc.culture.jewish,rec.humor.d Subject: Re: The EVIL Mr. Templeton responds Summary: jokes offensive? Message-ID: <804@atux01.UUCP> Date: 28 Nov 88 17:15:12 GMT References: <8011@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <17117@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <2359@looking.UUCP> Organization: AT&T CSEd/CET, Piscataway, N.J. Lines: 5 The comments remind me of the period when "All in the Family" premiered on TV. Some claimed the program perpetuated racial and religious stereotypes and bigotry. Others saw that its purpose was to lampoon racism, to make us laugh at it for the silly that that it is.