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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat<br><br><br>>…Spike, I think you're right. Everything seems to be classed as 'hate speech' now, even the most innocent things. Actually, rather than 'neo-Victorian', I think a better term might be 'neo-McCarthyism'.<br>…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I keep wondering if we will get over this, as we did with McCarthyism.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>>…An Englishman, Irishman and a Scotsman went into a bar.... Oh, hang on, can't tell that one, it's hate speech….<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That opener is still relatively safe. I don’t think the Brits have taken up being offended at everything. But since you got me started, I heard a good one which starts out that way. Each of gentlemen order a pint but a fly comes in and lands in the English lad’s mug. He pushes it away in disgust. Then a fly lands in the Irishman’s tankard. He picks out the beast, flicks it away and continues drinking as if nothing happened. Then a fly lands in the Scotsman’s grail. He angrily plucks it out by the wings and begins tapping on its back, shouting: Spit it oot, ya thievin’ bahstid!”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It's even funnier if you can do the accents right.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We can still do engineer, physicist, mathematician go to a bar jokes. For now.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…Probably safest to just outlaw humour altogether…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It’s getting that way it seems.<br><br>>…Now, about that Facebook post you made 15 years ago...Ben<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It does seem to be the style these days to judge people of the past by the ethical standards of today. It is a form of self-righteousness in which the Victorian nobility indulged itself as well.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>