n. 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 the 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.