Well, here we go. I must be mis-informed because you think it's ok to use a
commonly known derogatory comment to bolster your feeble areguments.

I think we all know what early- to mid-century dictator was good enough to
provide us an example of the result of the kind of thinking you have shown.

Are you really so stupid to equate an ethnic joke to a phrase used by
rednecks when they think they've been cheated?

Here's a story for you.. I was working at a very large hi-tech company. My
boss just finished negotiating with a peer of his over a particular
deliverable. When he got done, I happened to talk to the other guy who
called him a f*cking kike, saying he really jewed me down. Of course, it was
shocking that someone so obviously intelligent would make such a comment. He
surely was embarrassed when I told him that my boss was actually Lutheran.

You sound like a child to me... someone who can't understand why an
obviously offensive behavior is offensive.
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"Vito" wrote in message
...
"Capt. JG" wrote
Just don't try and tell me that it's ok to say whatever you like just
because we have a thing called free speech. ....

Obviously no one can tell you anything since you choose to remain forever
misinformed.

As a child I once come home sniveling that some other kids had called me
bad
names. My wise grandmother quoted a childrens' verse "Sticks and stones
may
break my bones but names shall never hurt me." The verse is absolutely
correct - no word(s) can hurt anybody unless the victim allows them to. I
took
that to heart and was never hurt by names again or jokes again, ethnic or
personal. I'm sorry if the weak are hurt or offended by various innocous
phrases - not because of having voiced them but because of that persons'
weakness and the insecurity that causes him/her the pain. But that
weakness is
self imposed.

Ask yourself why a phrase like "Jew down" offends you? Are you Jewish but
ashamed of it? Or perhaps you are so paranoid that you believe everybody
hates
Jews? Might I suggest that you wouldn't be offended if you were *proudly*
Jewish and believed, as I do, that only nutcases hate any ethnic group.

Or are you so antisemetic yourself that you ascribe negative thoughts to
the
word "Jew"? If so, do you think everybody is as antisemetic as yourself
and are
ashamed of yourself and them? Perhaps counseling might help.

In any event, it is YOUR own hangups that are causing you discomfort.

Meanwhile, the world is full of ethnic jokes and phrases, most based on a
grain
of truth. Why can't Italians drown? Cuz we're afraid of water and when
we're
afraid we talk and when we talk we wave our arms like we were swimming.
Why do
Polish have round shouldersand flat foreheads? Because they shrug when
asked
that question then slap their forehead when they hear the answer. Why do
NYrs
.... no that IS too dirty.

Too bad you can't enjoy them.

"Capt. JG" wrote
called him a f*cking kike, saying he really jewed me down.

Bwahahaha! Now I'm offended. Everybody knows that 'f*cking' precedes 'Italian'
not 'kike'. Cousin Louie thot he was a well known lover because everybody
called him f*king ginny and f*king wop. Now "kikes" are usurping our
reputations. Dreadful .....