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Thread #157339   Message #3716702
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
15-Jun-15 - 05:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: Cultural genocide
Subject: RE: BS: Cultural genocide
I have learned a valuable life lessen recently and I suggest that you have the benefit of my experience to save wasting any more of your time. There is no point arguing with Keith. Ethnic cleansing is only ethnic cleansing if it fits his definition. Historians are only historians if they fit his definition. Racial implants are only racial implants if they fit his definition. See the pattern here?

"I don't know what you mean by 'glory,' " Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't—till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!' "
"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."


And to paraphrase someone else, we seem to be in different counties seperated by a common tongue...