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  • Subject: Re: (fwd) JAVA SUCKS! T-Shirts, Now Available! (fwd)
  • From: "Kahn, David" <KAHN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 08:08:00 +0600

Dave Mahadevan (mahadevan@fuse.net) wrote:

>The humor in this is in poor taste  by referring to Nazis.  It is
>despicable that somebody will go through the trouble of making up the
>stuff without purposely intending to insult humanity.   You should not
>have posted this message to the group because it is offensive and
>obscene.  For six million people who perished in the holocost, this
>belittles their sacrifice..

As someone born into a family that had been utterly decimated by the
Nazis I also found the message to be in very bad taste, but I'm sure
Doug wouldn't have dreamt of posting it if he'd realised it would be
offensive. Perhaps the real offense is not joking about Nazis (Woody
Allen does it without offending me) but the lack of awareness.

BTW, no-one has really explained why we should be so hostile to Java.
What's the problem?

Dave Kahn - TCO, Tengiz, Kazakstan
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         dkahn@cix.compulink.co.uk  (from  August 6th)

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