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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.d,news.misc
Subject: Re: Sue the bastard  (was Jonathan Richmond jeopardizes the Usenet)
Message-ID: <4969@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 88 15:11:44 GMT
References: <20539@mirror.UUCP> <1991@stiatl.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <1991@stiatl.UUCP> john@stiatl.UUCP (John DeArmond) writes:
[nasty comment quoted about Richmond]
>The above is pretty much verbatim from a Jewish friend of mine who has read
>this little escapade.

Your Jewish friend perhaps realizes something that others don't.

Richmond's campaign against ethnic jokes is doing much, much more to
harm the image of the Jew among non-Jews than rec.humor.funny could
ever have done.

Richmond is no fool.  He is well aware that a charge of "making fun of
people of many cultures including Scotts and Jews" would be laughed at,
so he consistently uses the inaccurate label "racist".  He is
unavailable to respond to charges on Usenet, where he seems to have few
allies, but is happy to talk to the press, which loves a scandal.

But what he's really doing, in his campaign as self-proclaimed
representative of Jews, is helping propagate the image of Jews as
sullen, rebellious, and dishonest.  Those of you who consistently post
articles in his support should think about this.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  !{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi