Xref: utzoo soc.culture.jewish:8443 news.misc:2162 news.sysadmin:1729 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!psuvax1!psuvm.bitnet!cunyvm.bitnet!yzkcu From: YZKCU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Yaakov Kayman) Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.misc,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Anti-Semitism (Jew-hatred) on the network. What should be done? Message-ID: <1752YZKCU@CUNYVM> Date: 29 Nov 88 16:29:30 GMT References: <1748YZKCU@CUNYVM> <3616@phri.UUCP> Organization: The City University of New York - New York, NY Lines: 39 DISCLAIMER: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article In article <3616@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) says: > >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. >-- >Roy Smith, System Administrator >Public Health Research Institute I'd like to make it *quite* clear that the Jew-hatred on the net that I refer to is *NOT* the original Jewish-Scottish joke (see r.h.f. if you must if you don't remember that one, or e-mail Brad Templeton), but rather the vile anti-Semitic profanity directed at Nancy Gould as a result of this "tempest in a teapot". The original joke was offensive, but not terribly so. I normally try very hard to avoid profanity, sometimes with more success than at other times, but "F___ OFF YOU JEWISH B____" is anything but a joke, and deserves to be condemned in the strongest terms by responsible adults, who have a moral obligation to discourage deliberately offensive behavior. Humor that is deliberately offensive tends to bring out the worst in people. Do we not now see that? -------- Yaakov Kayman (212) 903-3666 City University of New York BITNET: YZKCU@CUNYVM "Lucky is the shepherd, and lucky the flock Internet: YZKCU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU about whom the wolves complain." #! rnews 687 Relay-Version: V