--- Jon Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >This is *awful*...but good sick gallows humor... > > > >Cowboys and Muslims <snipped joke> > This was incredibly offensive and not funny for so > many reasons. :( > > I'm genuinely curious: would you have posted this if > it had a German making > a snide comment about playing a 'wipe out the Jews' > game? I'm sorry that you were so offended. It made me laugh out loud and then groan "Oh, that's so bad..." -- I would not have posted it if I thought that gallows humor had no place on the list. But I wouldn't put it in the same category as a Nazi joke, because: (1) there is not (nor will there be) a Texan or American stated goal or program of wiping out Muslims; (2) I took it as poking (sardonic/political) fun at a certain 'cowboy,' and jokes about many politicos have been posted; (3) underneath the humor I read a pointed reminder of what categorizing people can lead to (frex, the consequences of past policies that 'dealt with heathen savages'). Debbi __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
