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"“I just think that many Germans have a police gene in their genetic makeup,”" Lol, discussion Godwin'ed by the OP itself - the NYT, no less.
by roel_v 14y ago
"“I just think that many Germans have a police gene in their genetic makeup,”"
Lol, discussion Godwin'ed by the OP itself - the NYT, no less.
- kybernetyk 14y agoWell, I'm living in Germany and I'm inclined to side with the NYT on this.
- roel_v 14y agoOh I realize all too well - I lived and worked in Germany some time ago too, and only a few weeks into the job I was scolded for not putting dr and prof into the field on the signup page where people could enter how they wanted to be addressed. To be fair, the marketing guys were right on that one, me leaving it out was my youthful arrogance - the same disdain for honorifics that is being displayed in the article, actually. Anyway, I wasn't so much saying that the article is wrong as that the snide tone of the remark came across as somewhat unbecoming of a purportedly 'serious' publication as the NYT.