Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!cbnews!ask
From: ask@cbnews.ATT.COM (Arthur S. Kamlet)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Do ethnic jokes CAUSE bigotry?
Message-ID: <2462@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Dec 88 17:22:12 GMT
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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.




Well said.

But prepare to have the world disagree that the anti-semitic slurs
were amti-semitic slurs.
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Art Kamlet  ask@cbrmb.att.com  AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus