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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Do ethnic jokes CAUSE bigotry?
Message-ID: <9269@gryphon.COM>
Date: 5 Dec 88 03:46:31 GMT
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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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.
>
>There have been examples right here in the current discussion of ethnic
>jokes. A number of anti-semitic slurs were sent in reaction to rather
>moderate posts.
>
>Promoting ethnic jokes in rec.humor.funny (by the moderator, an official
>agent of usenet) has no benefit whatever, and promotes bigotry as well.

Two possible responses:

1) Please keep excerpts from _World Weekly News_ in talk.rumours where
they belong.

2) The jokes in r.h.f. caused all the flowers in my yard to die. Of course
   I can't prove this either.

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