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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>JEDR</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../J.html" title="J"/><link rel="previous" href="JCL.html" title="JCL"/><link rel="next" href="Jeff-K-.html" title="Jeff K."/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">JEDR</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="JCL.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">J</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Jeff-K-.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="JEDR"/><dt xmlns="" id="JEDR"><b>JEDR</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Synonymous with <a href="../I/IYFEG.html"><i class="glossterm">IYFEG</i></a>. At one time, people
in the Usenet newsgroup <tt class="systemitem">rec.humor.funny</tt> tended to use
&#8216;JEDR&#8217; instead of <a href="../I/IYFEG.html"><i class="glossterm">IYFEG</i></a> or
&#8216;&lt;ethnic&gt;&#8217;; 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
<a href="../R/retcon.html"><i class="glossterm">retcon</i></a>ned by expanding these initials as &#8216;Joke
Ethnic/Denomination/Race&#8217;.) 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 &#8216;sensitivity&#8217; arguments for
censorship so thoroughly that more recent attempts to raise them have met
with immediate and near-universal rejection.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="JCL.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../J.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Jeff-K-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">JCL </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Jeff K.</td></tr></table></div></body></html>