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- From: henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Daemeon)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.culture.african.american
- Subject: Re: Omar: a recap of events
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 15:45:53 GMT
- Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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- >
- >Interesting point of view. So long as you don't mean to hurt anyone's
- >feelings, you can make all the racist jokes you want? Am I understanding
- >you correctly here?
- >
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- Excuse me, but what is your definition of a racist joke? Eddie Murphy
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- makes fun of white people. Some white people make fun of black people. Some
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- comedians make fun of orientals, jews, etc. etc. It is humor. It is not
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- a way for those comedians to subvert anyone or hurt anyone's feelings or make
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- them out to be inferior. The jive filter changes a text file to jive. Simply
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- that and nothing more. There is not a crime in that. I suggest that some of
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- the more upset/inflamed parties on the net go and watch a couple of hours of
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- stand-ups and decide if these people are saying that other races are inferior
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- to their own. A racist joke is a joke that portrays another race as being
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- inferior. A joke that portrays another race as being different is not racist.
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- If you don't agree then we have a difference of opinion. There is nothing more
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- to say. I am not a racist. I do not offer any proof that I am not a racist
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- but I simply state it as truth.
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- BTW, I didn't post the jived version and wasn't even present when it
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- was posted. I find myself defending the poster.
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- -Daemeon
-