<person, abuse, humour> 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 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)
Nearby terms:
JDK « JEAN « Jean E. Sammet « JEDR » Jef Raskin » Jerry Sussman » JES
