JEDR

person, abuse, humour Synonymous with IYFEG. At one time,

people in the Usenet newsgroup news: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 retconned 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.

[Jargon File]

(1994-11-22)