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- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Path: sparky!uunet!island!fester
- From: fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
- Subject: Re: Credit Validation
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.203024.3404@island.COM>
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- References: <NAEEM.92Dec29104546@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> <C0192x.KyB@cs.dal.ca> <NAEEM.92Dec30194521@occs.cs.oberlin.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:30:24 GMT
- Lines: 70
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- In article <NAEEM.92Dec30194521@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Naeem Mohaiemen) writes:
-
- >Steve, you raise a legitimate point. But, I am unable to take such things
- >as lightly.
-
- Well, that's what this group is all about. The title 'rec.humor' is there merely
- to confuse the literate. Fortunately, you saw right through that clever ruse.
-
- >Do you get attacked for your different-ness? Of course not?
- >Indians/South Asian do get attacked in this country and elsewhere. That is
-
- Serves 'em right for being different.
-
- >why it is so mich harder for us to "chill out" and laigh at ourselves when
- >the jokes are made about our difference. Certainly, i don't desire that we
- >lose our accents and assimilate.
-
- Thank God. Then there wouldn't be anyone to take cheap shots at.
-
- >But, our difference is used as a device
- >to separate us by racist gangs in this country. This board has civilized,
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >educated people who are really just having a laugh and not meaning anything
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- At last! The ObHumor in the post.
-
- >by it. But out on the streets of urban cities, these jokes have a very
- >different context.
-
- Idea for a new group; rec.humor.urban.streets. Unmoderated, of course.
-
- >In New Jersey, there is a gang of white skinheads who specifically formed
- >to attack Indians in the area. They call themselves the "Dotbusters"
- >(after the dot Indian women wear as ritualistic make-up on their foreheads).
- >The have killed Indians in the area. One of their heroes is a band called
- >Stormtroopers Of Destruction (SOD), because of a song called "Speak English
- >or Die". Here is an excerpt:
- >
- >"What is that dot on your forehead for?
-
- It means the coffee's done.
-
- > Does it help you to see?
-
- Naw, keeps you in your place (at least in India, where it's a "good" or
- "cultural" thing).
-
- > Speak English or die"
-
- And especially learn to understand the word "freeze".
-
- >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >"I think there is a good deal of evidence that we thought all along that we
- > were a redeemer nation. There was a lot of illusion in our national history.
- > Now it is about to be shattered."
- > [Reinhold Niebuhr on My Lai massacre]
- >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- "Kill 'em all. Let God sort 'em out." - anonymous Marine
-
- My apologies to anyone I haven't offeneded. I'll try to get around to it, I
- promise.
-
- Mike
- --
- Disclaimer - These opinions are not so much opinions, as pearls of wisdom. Any-
- one disagreeing is obviously either a) a snivelling, whining, mentally-
- deficient, weak-willed, inconsequential, namby-pamby tool of some vague but
- conveniently defined conspiracy, or b) my wife.
-