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To: The_Reader_David

d paste. Not knowing what Bosniac means isn’t ignorance.

Joe Biden is apparently looking for help.
Better if he was looking for work, but its a start...


2,217 posted on 10/02/2008 7:32:53 PM PDT by ottersnot (Lose the Zero, vote for the hero!)
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To: ottersnot

On the contrary, the very essence of ignorance is not knowing things.

Admittedly it is a very minor form of ignorance to not know the proper names of ethnic groups in the Balkans. (I’ve been ‘on the Balkan desk’ here at FR since I joined, so maybe I have a jaundiced view here.)

The problem is sneering at Biden on the basis of not knowing something.

There are plenty of reasons to sneer at him, but his using the correct name of Muslim Slavs is not one.


2,459 posted on 10/02/2008 7:42:20 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (For real change stop electing lawyers: Fighter-Pilot/Hockey-Mom '08.)
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