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