In alt.fan.miss-manners on 14 Oct 2003 01:53:27 GMT
countdownt...@a✧✧.comnoj✧✧✧ (Countdown to 55) posted:
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>>>> "Etiquette requires us to be polite to people"
>>>You nazi!
>>Not funny at all.
>>Since this is a manners group, I'm posting.
>>There is nothing funny about nzis. There won't be in the lifetime of
>>any person alive now, and longer.
>>Two of my family were murdered by nzis.
>>And many more than 2 for many of the people I know, if 2 is not enough
>>for someone to understand.
>Maybe I'm looking at it a little differently, but my family lost 65 members
>thanks to the Nazis and what they started, but I took no offense.
Show it to your parents or grandparents, if it won't upset them too
much, and see how they would react.
>I took the original post and the reply to be a rather outlandish satire/humor
>type of thing.
That's what was wrong with the reply. It's not an appropriate topic
for satire or humor. Maybe for you and me and the seriousness of the
matter can't be lessened, but for others who read jokes about it, it
certainly can and does make it seem less serious.
>Now if it had been serious,
I didn't think and never suggested it was serious. I thought I was
clear.
> and it really *was* intended as a
>comparison to the Nazis, *then* I might have taken offense after paying homage
>to Godwin. But maybe I was reading things entirely wrong.
Obviously his joke didn't bother you, and I presume you posted to try
to make me feel better about what he said. While that's a worthwhile
goal, you seem to think I didn't know it was meant as humor. I did.
Given that you're not going to make me feel better about such jokes,
do you want to be giving the green light to everybody else to make
jokes about nzis?. Do you want to take that responsibility? How
would your 65 dead family members and any of their children who
survived as orphans feel about that?
>Cindy
Meirman
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