🚀 go-pugleaf

Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@green.rahul.net> enscribed:
> In ba.general Hal Burton <hal@burton.spam> wrote:
> > On 2006-12-27 00:37:41 -0500, Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@green.rahul.net> said:
> 
> >> most, but (1) it's not in their DNA to respond to a real or
> >> perceived offense with anything but violence, and (2) many/most
> 
> > Finally, the truth slips out. You are racist. It was apparent enough 
> > from your credulous acceptance of anything Israeli and rejection of 
> > everything Arab, but one can't accuse another of being racist without 
> > direct evidence. The funny thing about racists is, they always admit it 
> > if given enough time to speak their minds.
> 
>      "In the DNA" is colloquial for "very deep in the culture."  If
> this is to be a scientific discussion, I will avoid such 
> colloquialisms.  Thank you for catching this.
>      It is very deep in the Arab culture to respond to any real or
> perceived offense with violence.  Thus it is unlikely that they 
> will implement a sustained campaign of civil disobedience or
> passive resistance in the occupied territories of Palestine.  This
> is unfortunate, because such a campaign would lead to an independent
> Palestinian state, on terms that many if not most of them would find
> acceptable, within a couple of years.
>      Again my thanks for calling me out on the inappropriate use
> of this colloquialism.
> 
> 
> 

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