JEDR

   Synonymous  with {IYFEG}. At one time, people in the Usenet newsgroup
   rec.humor.funny   tended   to   use  `JEDR'  instead  of  {IYFEG}  or
   `<ethnic>';  this stemmed from a public attempt to suppress the group
   once  made  by a loser with initials JEDR after he was offended by an
   ethnic  joke posted there. (The practice was {retcon}ned by expanding
   these  initials as `Joke Ethnic/Denomination/Race'.) After much sound
   and  fury  JEDR  faded  away; this term appears to be doing likewise.
   JEDR's  only  permanent  effect  on  the net.culture was to discredit
   `sensitivity' arguments for censorship so thoroughly that more recent
   attempts  to  raise  them  have met with immediate and near-universal
   rejection.

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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {IYFEG}]