Xref: utzoo alt.flame:3243 news.misc:2146 soc.culture.jewish:8424 rec.humor.d:1222 Path: utzoo!hoptoad!daisy!wyse!vsi1!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!mirror!david From: david@mirror.TMC.COM (David Chesler) Newsgroups: alt.flame,news.misc,soc.culture.jewish,rec.humor.d Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, and the Stupid (LONG) Message-ID: <20312@mirror.TMC.COM> Date: 29 Nov 88 17:56:14 GMT References:<1092@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <429@mccc.UUCP> <2065@uokmax.UUCP> Reply-To: david@prism.TMC.COM (David Chesler) Organization: Mirror Systems, Cambridge Mass. Lines: 32 In article <2065@uokmax.UUCP> russ@uokmax.UUCP (Random J Nightfall) writes: >[pjh@mccc.UUCP:] >->In article clong@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes: (I think Nancy said the following:) >->Or maybe you just don't understand. Don't feel badly; lots of people >->don't understand how perpetuating the negative stereotypes of persecuted >->minorities can lead to further persecution. You may just have to live >->through it. >He understands fine. So do the rest of us. Kindly stop explaining. The >point is, noone made you read it. The ONLY POSSIBLE problem here (except >what might be in your head) is the failure to ROT13 the given post. Obviously the author of the above paragraph (russ) does not understand. If someone were to post "All the Jews ought to be killed" I would not be offended, because I would just figure the author is a jerk. Nevertheless I would object to the posting because someone else, a third party, might read the post and be more willing to act on it. I don't think one such post would be enough to convince anyone on the entire Usenet to commit murder, but enough of them can lead to an environment where physical acts against myself and my people become more commonplace. As this has happened before in recent and older history, it is something that I do watch out for. Whether or not I read the comment, whether or not I subscribe to the group containing it, those third parties read it. It is for this reason that many object to posting. (Disclaimer: I didn't find the particular joke to fit into that category, but many people whose opinions I respect did; their reasoning is perfectly valid, it is only their specific-case judgement with which I disagree.) -- David Chesler (david@prism.tmc.com, mirror!david)