Re[2]: External links (Was Re: [tied] Re: oldest places- and watern

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 61682
Date: 2008-11-16

At 3:58:01 PM on Sunday, November 16, 2008, Rick McCallister
wrote:

[...]

> Please use the currently accepted designations
> Afro-Asiatic or Afrasian. Hamito-Semitic et al. is not
> scientific and smacks of racism. There is no Hamitic
> branch and the term Hamitic is rooted in pseudo-scientific
> racist dogma that originally tried to find justification
> in the Bible by tainting Africans as accursed "sons of
> Ham".

It also implies the primary split is between Semitic and
everything else, which is certainly not demonstrated and
contrary to every classification that I've seen.

Brian