Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!nrl-cmf!ames!elroy!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Do ethnic jokes CAUSE bigotry? Message-ID: <9269@gryphon.COM> Date: 5 Dec 88 03:46:31 GMT Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 23 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. Two possible responses: 1) Please keep excerpts from _World Weekly News_ in talk.rumours where they belong. 2) The jokes in r.h.f. caused all the flowers in my yard to die. Of course I can't prove this either. -- "If nothing else, the election means no more Ontario plonk" - Mordecai Richler richard@dogmeat.gryphon.COM dogmeat.gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov