Xref: utzoo soc.culture.jewish:8565 news.misc:2253 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!husc6!cs.utexas.edu!berleant From: berleant@cs.utexas.edu (Dan Berleant) Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.misc Subject: Do ethnic jokes CAUSE bigotry? Message-ID: <4204@cs.utexas.edu> Date: 4 Dec 88 17:31:49 GMT References: <1748YZKCU@CUNYVM> <275@acheron.UUCP> <130@verdix.verdix.com> <284@acheron.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.utexas.edu Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 12 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. Dan