Xref: utzoo soc.culture.jewish:8461 news.misc:2183 news.sysadmin:1742
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ulysses!sfsup!saal
From: saal@sfsup.UUCP (S.Saal)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.misc,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anti-Semitism (Jew-hatred) on the network. What should be done?
Message-ID: <4339@sfsup.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 88 11:41:56 GMT
References: <3616@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: saal@/doc/dsg/saalUUCP (xt1124-S.Saal)
Organization: AT&T Information Systems
Lines: 34

In article <3616@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>YZKCU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Yaakov Kayman) writes:
>>     What do you people "out there" think?

>	I think people should stop jumping up and down and get on with their
>lives.  Of course, if your life consists of seeking out Great Injustices
>where they don't exist, so be it.  If there has been anti-semitism on
>rec.humor.funny, it must be pretty subtle since I didn't even notice it until
>people started screaming and yelling about it.

I didn't want to get involved in this discussion.  (I think the
whole thing is pretty trivial.  A common thread in 99% of non-
language oriented humor is that it makes fun of someone or
something's difficulties - including personal differences.)
However, the statement by this system administrator is
particularly bad.  He says that because he doesn't notice it it
either doesn't exist or is so subtle that no one else should get
upset.  This is not a  particularly realistic idea.  Although I
am in no way calling Roy a bigot, it seems to me that no bigot
would consider his actions bigoted.  "The Jews/blacks/ are
getting what they deserve; that's nothing special...."  Please
think about this.  Not recognizing a problem is not necessarily
due to nonexistence of the problem.  It can also be due to
lack of sensitivity on the part of the observer.

>Roy Smith, System Administrator
>Public Health Research Institute
>{allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net
>"The connector is the network"


-- 
Sam Saal         ..!attunix!saal
Vayiphtach HaShem et Peah HaAtone