Reply #104: You're right about a lot of things...

[PCIntern]

Being classist, as you say, is not one of them. I personally found the post in question 'eloquent' - my opinion. What I meant by that is that the poster wrote in lyrical, flowing language, making a cogent argument. When someone stated that it wasn't eloquent, I took issue and wrote something which would have been written by someone who was not 'eloquent'. It has nothing to do with class: the conservative humorist P.J. O'Rourke once noted that brains and 'class' have no correlation with money: that some of the dumbest and most frightening people you can find reside in Beverly Hills, but in Russia, where philosophy and chess are spectator sports and the people speak three languages well, they're boiling rocks to make soup.

I come from what would be termed a 'poor' background, brought up in a home by a single parent long before it was in vogue to be from one of those. My parents, both brilliant people couldn't get alon...much like some here at DU. But they imparted one bit of information to me which I never forgot. Do not ever judge someone's character by their background or deportment.

And I'm all for peace too. As one poster said, if the HEzbollah would lay down their weaposn, there would be peace...if the Israelis did, there'd be genocide.

Peace to you, however.