From: bm508@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Branimir Dokic)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Oh no, again: Omar: a recap of events
Date: 22 Nov 1992 03:21:06 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bm508@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Branimir Dokic)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


My apologies to alt.folklore.college'ers for rehashing this junk.
I'm sorry.


In a previous article, djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns) says:

>In article <1eb8qoINNkgc@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bm508@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Branimir Dokic) writes:
>
># Hi,
>#      Could someone not ignore my post and respond.
>
>The net is swarming with unsupervised children that pop into a group
>here and there, drop an insult or two, and move on before anyone can
>respond.  You expect special treatment?


Show me where I insulted someone, pal.  No I don't expect special
treatment--this seem to be a good forum for people to exchange
dialogue and ideas, so I asked for a response.  Thanks for your
attempt, nonetheless.  Dork.   Ooops I guess I did insult someone.
I'm sorry, you're not a Dork.  You're just one of those scavengers
who pops into a group to rehash a dead issue without even 
reading all of the previous posts to get a "correct" idea as to
what's going on.  Get your facts straight before you accuse:

># What's the difference in humor between the jive filter and movies
># like "White Men Can't Jump?" Or Eddie Murphy suggesting that all
># white men are "small?"
>
>Eddie Murphy is funny.  You are not.  The "jive" filter is simply
>preadolescent, towel-snapping humor.  It wouldn't be any funnier if
>you had run that text through the "valley girl" or "yankee" filters.
>

Oh yeah uh huh.  Good rationale there.  Your logic makes perfect
sense to me!  So Eddie Murphy is mature humor since you say so.
Well, I can't argue with you, you must be right!!
 
  
In case you're confused here, *I* was not the person to run 
the file through the filter.  Look before you
leap, Dork.  But that's not the issue here.  However, it is an issue
that I disagree with your statement on "valley girl" filters.  I didn't
know one existed but I think it'd be very funny to hear a batch
of text run through a "valley girl" filter.  Where can I get it?


># I'm tired of hearing white males get bashed on TV by movies and
># commercials (you know, dumb white male husband messes up and smart
># wife cleans up mess) and comedians and then hearing a minority
># group say that they're "picked on."
>
>Oh, I get it.
>
>Heard any good retarded Serb jokes recently?
>
 
Yes, and I've been living through the one-sided news reports coming
over from Zagreb propaganda agencies.

    Stories are being baised against the "crazy
serbs" by the "hapless Croatians."  Truth is both sides are crazy 
and cruel and full of centuries of hatred for each other.  Rather 
than protest and make problems worse here by distancing myself
from the Croatian community, I choose to let actions speak
louder than words.  Rather than form all-Serb clubs which speak
of hatred for American Croatians, I'm trying to keep my relations 
good with my many Croatian friends here by talking with them and 
trying to keep the hatred from spreading here to America.  I don't 
talk down about Croatian people.  When I see a problem between two groups
of people, I think it's better to come closer rather than separate
the two groups with I'm-right-you're-wrong winless arguements.  These
just drive people apart.  Separate-but-equal-but-separate
just doesn't cut it for me and it never will.


>This silliness is not the basis for a philosophical discussion about
>stereotypes.
>
>Have a nice life.
>
 
I am. I'm glad it's mine and not your type of pre-supposing,
assuming life.
 
Have a life


B.

>David
>
>
>
-- 
Branimir Dokic
Radio-Telivizija-Beograd