Xref: utzoo soc.culture.jewish:8578 news.misc:2264 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!elroy!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!mayville From: mayville@tybalt.caltech.edu (Kevin J. Mayville) Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.misc Subject: Re: Do ethnic jokes CAUSE bigotry? Message-ID: <8814@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 5 Dec 88 05:25:46 GMT References: <1748YZKCU@CUNYVM> <275@acheron.UUCP> <130@verdix.verdix.com> <284@acheron.UUCP> <4204@cs.utexas.edu> Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu Reply-To: mayville@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Kevin J. Mayville) Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 30 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. Yup. The people that sent the hate-mail to Nancy were obviously outstanding citizens, model members of their communities, until they were exposed to the criminally bigoted newsgroup, rec.humor.funny. Their minds, against their will, were being poisoned by Brad's steady litany of hate. Slowly, their charitable contributions dwindled, they dropped out of the Big Brother program, until finally, after reading the joke in question, they caved in and lost their tattered shreads of humanity. Kindly get real........ Kevin mayville@tybalt.caltech.edu "She's beautiful, popular, and obviously going through some emotional shoot-out to consent to date....the human tater-tot. What did you do, Keith, threaten her life?"