Posted by Lou Pilder on April 11, 2005, at 22:50:40
In reply to Re: Dr. Hsiung: Please deal with this » used2b, posted by 10derHeart on April 11, 2005, at 21:40:23
10derheart,
You wrote,[...Mark made it a point to...as an "awful joke"...]and,[...he was {in no way} making fun of sexual abuse...].
Mark wrote that the joke was awful. But the phrase that you use,{in no way}, could have the potential,IMO, that some people could think that you are making a conclusion of absoluteness, being the use of {no way}.
But I have been in situations where another would say that what they were going to say is a bad joke and proceed to tell an antisemitic joke. I asked them why they told the joke if they knew that it was a bad joke. They responded to me that it was funny. I responded to them that I did not think that it was funny. Now if someone was to write a joke here, and even if they were to say that the following is a ,let's say, a joke about racial sterotypes, could the joke be written if they write that it is an awful joke before they write it?
Lou PIlder
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