Xref: utzoo soc.culture.jewish:8611 news.misc:2300 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!uwvax!tank!nic.MR.NET!xanth!mcnc!thorin!unc!oliver From: oliver@unc.cs.unc.edu (Bill Oliver) Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.misc Subject: Re: Do ethnic jokes CAUSE bigotry? Message-ID: <5741@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Date: 6 Dec 88 20:14:11 GMT References: <1748YZKCU@CUNYVM> <275@acheron.UUCP> <130@verdix.verdix.com> <284@acheron.UUCP> <4204@cs.utexas.edu> Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu Reply-To: oliver@unc.UUCP (Bill Oliver) Organization: University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 26 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. > >Dan Now, if you review the postings to the net on this subject, the only ethnic slurs that were actually posted as articles in fact came from those who objected to the jokes. The "number" anti-semetic slurs you refer to apparently come from one, maybe two people who have access to the net, and were e-mail messages, not postings. Are you claiming that these one or two people were not anti-semitic before this started? Heh. I'd like to see your reasoning on this. Bill Oliver