Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:52:00 -0500
From: "Cristina J. Thaut" <ct84153-AT-ltec.net>
Subject: Re: ibm world?


"Eating Irish children" is not meant to be funny, and I don't think Swift's
satire, written from a position of outrage against the English system, is
comparable to this stupid IBM joke.  We may argue over whether this IBM
joke has any merit, but the same is much more difficult to argue against
Swift.  Cristi

At 08:27 AM 4/26/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>
>On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Maureen N. Eke wrote:
> 
>> What in the world is this so-called joke supposed to communicate to us?  I
>> don't find this funny.  I thought we were well aware of Western stereotypes
>> of Africans and other indigenous people. Yet, someone on this list feels it
>> necessary and "funny" enough to subject some of us to a "refashioned"
>> version of the old West-come-to-save-the- savages" joke. I am not laughing
>> and I find it distressing that any one would consider this "funny."  
>
>kudos to maureen for her bold insights; I completely agree. additionally,
>while shifting through some dusty books, I came across an Irish writer's
>treatise that advocated eating children! With that, I can only say that I
>am not laughing and I find it distressing that any one would consider this
>"funny."
>
>wishing academics weren't always so caught up in being right,
>
>dell
>
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