roachboy

debaser:

i didnt ask that what i do for a living come up in this thread: i dont think it relevant and do not operate here in that mode--i rarely refer to it, and do not rely on it to legitimate what i say.

that said, i do not think you know what you are defending on this colonialism question.
the history of european colonialism--i know more about africa than other places/versions---it difficult to assimilate. it is deeply shocking, and is of a magnitude that changes you a little for knowing it. it is one of those areas where information corrodes.

had this gone another way, i would have preferred to introduce more and more of information, figuring that this would have done more damage than any amount of tedious messageboard bluster.

but it didnt.

i wondered about my last post after i put it up, whether the last three lines of it were necessary. they weren't. they did nothing constructive. mea culpa.

well, that didnt go well, did it?
sometimes its just like that.

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