Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!cbnews!ask From: ask@cbnews.ATT.COM (Arthur S. Kamlet) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Do ethnic jokes CAUSE bigotry? Message-ID: <2462@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 5 Dec 88 17:22:12 GMT References: <1748YZKCU@CUNYVM> <275@acheron.UUCP> <130@verdix.verdix.com> <284@acheron.UUCP> <4204@cs.utexas.edu> Reply-To: ask@cbnews.ATT.COM (Arthur S. Kamlet) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 21 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. >Promoting ethnic jokes in rec.humor.funny (by the moderator, an official >agent of usenet) has no benefit whatever, and promotes bigotry as well. Well said. But prepare to have the world disagree that the anti-semitic slurs were amti-semitic slurs. -- Art Kamlet ask@cbrmb.att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus