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beezneez  ·  3923 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: When May I Shoot a Student? - NYTimes.com

He has a wonderfully meek, sarcastic voice. PNW passive-agression is paramount here, like this article on the "Seattle No".. Particularly:

    His theory was that in Seattle, no matter how much we truly want to say NO, we worry what other people will think of us if we say the word. We want to live NO without being held accountable for choosing NO. We want it both ways. Apparently we as a region have decided that really good people say Yes to everything and that saying NO to anything would be a social gaffe along the lines of spilling soup down one’s chin.