Xref: utzoo soc.culture.jewish:8605 news.misc:2291 news.sysadmin:1837 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!vsi1!wyse!mips!prls!philabs!micomvax!ray From: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn) Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.misc,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Anti-Semitism (Jew-hatred) on the network. What should be done? Message-ID: <1442@micomvax.UUCP> Date: 5 Dec 88 19:53:13 GMT References: <1748YZKCU@CUNYVM> <3616@phri.UUCP> <1752YZKCU@CUNYVM> Reply-To: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn) Organization: Philips Electronics Ltd. (TDS - Montreal) St. Laurent QC, Canada Lines: 35 In article <1752YZKCU@CUNYVM> YZKCU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Yaakov Kayman) writes: > >Humor that is deliberately offensive tends to bring out the worst in >people. > >Do we not now see that? No, overreacting to a joke which was fairly innocuous, even if in "poor taste", tends to make other people overreact similarly. The posting of the joke was dubious. The (over)reaction was at least just as dubious. Do we not now see that? By the way, the case has now hit the press. The Montreal Gazette on Saturday reported the case along with an interview with Templeton etc, and to say that the U of Waterloo is "looking into it". This came from the Canadian Press news agency. I wont repeat the article here as I'm sure you'll read it elsewhere. Suffice it to say that the internet worm is causing general exposure so that what wouldn't be news under normal circumstances is currently hot. It looks as if that "affirmative action" is having some effect. Why is it that in conflicts like these, a demand for "manners" and "tolerance" from the *other* side is rarely accompanied by a *demonstration* of those same virtues. -- Ray Dunn. | UUCP: ..!philabs!micomvax!ray Philips Electronics Ltd. | TEL : (514) 744-8200 Ext: 2347 600 Dr Frederik Philips Blvd | FAX : (514) 744-6455 St Laurent. Quebec. H4M 2S9 | TLX : 05-824090