--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 11, 2005, at 9:35 AM, authfriend wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <snip> > >> after an Ashkenazi overclocker goes on a verbal > >> precision rant > > > > Interesting phrase. Would that be Ashkenazi > > as in Jewish? > > > > Is that what you think triggers the flaming > > after the rant, the assumption that the ranter > > is Jewish? > > No, of course not, it's genetic, not religious.
Anti-Semitism is often based on ethnicity and the purported genetic characteristics thereof, as opposed to religious belief. > Since the Ashkenazi > overclocking gene tends to create people with high verbal > comprehension and high verbal IQ it's not unusual to witness > arguments over linguistic and verbal minutiae even if the original > speaker/writer never intended that level of precision. Are you assuming that posters here with high verbal comprehension and high verbal IQ are Ashkenazi because of those traits, or do you base your assumption on other things as well? > As far as I > know it is not caused by your religious preference. That was the generic "you," right? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
