re: #43 Talking Point Detective

Heh. Not sure about the “undoubtedly” part - given your prior set of assumptions (that your own reading is more likely to be accurate because it’s your reading).

But for your analysis to be correct, we’d have to assume that she knows that others know that she’s of Arabic decent. Given that she has a lifetime of experience realizing that people don’t recognize her name as Arab - I’d say that’s questionable. Her logic that people were attacking her because she’s Arabic would be based on a completely illogical assumpti…

Oh.

Wait.

Maybe you are correct.

In the US,anyway, names indicate nothing. Especially to the younger generation. They might recognize a Latino name.