Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!xanth!nic.MR.NET!shamash!nis!ems!srcsip!pneuma!murthy From: murthy@pneuma.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Madhu Murthy) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: RACIST JOKES (Response to JER) Message-ID: <12991@srcsip.UUCP> Date: 6 Dec 88 18:33:53 GMT Sender: news@src.honeywell.COM Lines: 18 There is no question that hatred needs to be eliminated. I accept that invoking the first amendment argument is law and not love. I recognize you right to say your piece as I am saying mine. I am a foreign national myself and have seen incidents of racism on myself. And I am saying my piece. If racist jokes are being used to put down people, the problem is with the people not the jokes. Get to the roots and not the branches. I can't speak for others but I am not a bigot. And I like all kinds of jokes. But to make an example from nazi germans in this context ... The extremity of your example makes one more aware of oneself. That was good. I hope you don't get carried away. Madhu