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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Thought for the day: racist jokes on LUG
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 17:41:06 -0400
References: <676545DE-4FE7-11D6-87BA-003065D4DE46@sohogurus.net>

Keep on digging, Allen.


- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: Allan Wafkowski <allan@sohogurus.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 4:37 PM
Subject: [Leica] Re: Thought for the day: racist jokes on LUG


> Let's be serious. It was a poor joke, but It carried no hatred. By one 
> definition, it would be accurate to call the war between the   Israelis 
> and the Palestinians racist. To call the bad joke racist is absurd. 
> Racism is a very strong word that means hating a person down to his very 
> bloodline; a true belief that the other person is somehow less then 
> human. Hitler and Malcom X were racist, the teller of that joke is not.
> 
> Do you know why you get called a liberal if you protest? Because 
> liberals have faulty senses of humor, and are too quick to see people in 
> the poorest light, and foolishly see themselves as having some special 
> understanding when they are more often just parroting what they read or 
> heard, without serious thought. When YOU stop hating those who differ 
> with you, you might  understand that people have different ideas that 
> are not as hateful as you think.
> 
> Allan
> 
> 
> DFangon@aol.com wrote:
> > I don't even know what this "joke" was doing on a Leica Users Group 
> > List.
> > Bad taste and off topic to boot.  And if one protests, they label you 
> > with
> > names like liberal or "left wing" whatever.  Some people can't stop 
> > hating,
> > even if the subject is about cameras.
> 
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Replies: Reply from "Matthew Powell" <mlpowell@directvinternet.com> (Re: [Leica] Re: Thought for the day: racist jokes on LUG)
In reply to: Message from Allan Wafkowski <allan@sohogurus.net> ([Leica] Re: Thought for the day: racist jokes on LUG)