From: Dan Waniek
Message: 42120
Date: 2005-11-16
>
> Piotr:
> > I can only admit my guilt, apologise and try to
> explain myself:
>
> Excuses are irrelevant. Act or quit. Publishing these
> Patrick's
> attacks and leaving them there is a betrayal of all
> forum
> members, with or without weak explanations of yours.
>
>
> Piotr:
> > You can ignore those ideas or counter them with
> reasonable
> > arguments.
>
> Cybalist appears to be heading down the same path of
> hijacking
> as on Nostratic-L where victims are blamed for their
> victimization.
>
>
> Brian, concerning Pat's race-goading:
> > Racism, however, it is not, any more than it is
> racism for me
> > to predict that the Lakeisha on my class roster will
> turn out
> > to be black.
>
> ??? This is by far the last straw.
>
> The fact that "race" should even *dare* be debated on
> Cybalist
> is racist in itself.
>
> The very fact that anyone can or would assume a race
> out of a
> first name, assumes that race is accurately definable,
> which is
> perhaps the most fundamentally racist thing about this
> comment.
>
> And this from a man lecturing us about Logic.
>
> Your forum has lowered its standards of reasoning to a
> point
> that static is more informative than long dead issues
> and
> immediately falsifiable pet theories that are
> constantly
> rehashed over and over ad nauseum on this list.
>
> I object to all of the following:
>
> - Paleolithic Continuity Theory
> - Etruscan relationship to Hurrian
> - Reconstruction of languages 100,000 years ago
>
> These are not theories. These are mythologies and I
> don't care
> to debate them. I've moved on.
>
> Goodbye.
>
>
> = gLeN
>
>
>
>
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