Xref: utzoo news.misc:2138 soc.culture.jewish:8416 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!jik From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) Newsgroups: news.misc,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Re: Racist jokes Message-ID: <8190@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 29 Nov 88 06:03:18 GMT References: <438@mccc.UUCP> <6568@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM> <8854@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <1102@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <375@sulaco.Sigma.COM> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) Distribution: na Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 34 In article <375@sulaco.Sigma.COM> allen@sulaco.sigma.com (Allen Gwinn) writes: >In article <1102@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> >nmg@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Nancy M Gould) writes: ::In article <8854@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US ::(Drtoyoubuddy. Beach Bum) writes: ===You really have to love the continued liberal whining. Look, the ===liberals LOST the election. Any one who can count should be able ===to see that the election was lost because the so-called ===``Minorities'' didn't buy the racist claims. ::Now wait a second. The liberals did not LOSE the election. ::Congress has a solidly Democratic majority. Or is that something ::you'd rather not think about? >Just because the Democrats maintain a majority doesn't mean that the >liberals won the election. There is such a thing as a "conservative >Democrat" (for example: L. Bentsen). This is obviously something >that *you'd* rather not think about, isn't it? :-) (Sorry for all the reposting, but I think it's necessary to make the point.) He didn't say that "the liberals won the election," He said that "the liberals did not LOSE the election." A national election is not a black and white thing, where "the liberals" either "lose" or "win." If it were, we would walk into a polling place and be handed a ballot with two big boxes from which to pick and check one: "liberal" and "conservative." Come on, now. This election was a prime example of this, which makes it even more puzzling to me that this argument about "winning" and "losing" the election persists. Jonathan Kamens MIT Project Athena