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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
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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?
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