[comp.edu] The Meaning of Jokes

andy@cayuga.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman) (12/15/88)

In article <18325@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> matloff@iris.ucdavis.edu (Norm Matloff) writes:
>I laughed at the cartoon too (both versions), because the way it was
>drawn WAS pretty funny.  But nevertheless, the point remains:  Higher
>education and intellectual activity in general are just not respected
>in the U.S., compared to the respect these things get in Asia.

Which groups haven't been infected by the "If you joke about <insert
the name of a group of people>, you don't respect them." disease?

-andy
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