Well in principle I agree with Hemingway, who said that he'd laugh at
anything if the joke was funny enough. My mother died of lung cancer
and I've laughed at cancer jokes. But you're right jokes only come in
too varieties, funny and unfunny.

What I inveighed against was the habit of insulting a single person by
reference to that person's membership in a larger group--that is, a
larger group of innocents: people who live in trailers; and the
hypocrisy of some people of saying this group is an acceptable group
to insult but not these people over here, when each group is equally
innocent.



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> "John Smith" <stellar_one@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > Well I appreciate your acknowledgement that it is an odious term. By
> > the way I don't think a french waiter joke is as condemnable as the
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> Jokes are not condemnable, insulting people is.
> Using sterotypical patterns that can always be shortened by "x...stinks,
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