Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!electro!carlo
From: carlo@electro.UUCP (Carlo Sgro)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Do ethnic jokes CAUSE bigotry?
Message-ID: <203@electro.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 88 15:01:23 GMT
References: <1748YZKCU@CUNYVM> <275@acheron.UUCP> <130@verdix.verdix.com> <284@acheron.UUCP> <4204@cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: carlo@electro.UUCP (Carlo Sgro)
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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.

Wouldn't it be far more likely to believe that the person(s) who sent the 
E-mail slurs were bigoted to begin with rather than inspired into bigotry 
by any joke posted by Brad?  

Think back to your first or second year Statistics courses and review the
difference between causation and correlation ...


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