"aem" > wrote:
>
>Luke Kilpatrick wrote:
>> [a fairly typical indignant defense of the target of jokes that struck too close to home]
>
>Next is usually a 'hey, can't you tell a joke from a real insult?'
>post, then some more jokes in the spirit of piling on, then either the
>thread branches to semi-relevant side topics that popped up by chance
>or it descends to personal attacks and name-calling.

The funny part is this; if someone starting posting 'jokes' about
blacks, or Jews, or gays, or women... The outrage and uproar would be
loud and sustained. And *nobody* would tell any blacks/Jews/gays
"hey, its just a joke, deal with it".

But somehow - it's OK when the target is Southerners?

D.
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Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh.

-Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings.
Oct 5th, 2004 JDL