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averagejoel posted...

you do not remember correctly. my first response to him was post 109. his initial statement (not question) was that white Europeans were the focus "because the rest of the world lacked comparable works."

if he takes offense to his statements (not questions) being classified as racist, then he should not make such statements. I also went into detail about why the one perspective would be considered racist, and he interpreted that as an "accusation" (which it was not)

I also explained, in detail, why his specific statement (again, not question) missed the point of the discussion.

it has already been established that you do not remember it correctly. at this point, I'm skeptical that you even read the exchange in the first place. ("conversation", because it implies somewhat equal participation, is too generous a term for what happened.)

it was many reasons. that is indeed one of them. I have laid out a few more.

I indeed misremembered, got him mixed up with RedJackson, for that I apologize. You implied his statement was either racist or he was using circular logic, so Schrodinger's Racist or Schrodinger's Idiot.

Honestly I've got no horse in this race, just saw your "woe is me" at post #146 and thought I'd weigh in on why you might be seeing the behavior you do.


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