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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
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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.
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