Subject: Re: Female Genital Mutilation
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 19:43:29 GMT

Paul (Kekai) Manansala (sac51900@saclink2.csus.edu) wrote:

: I remember in another forum that Dr. Gloria Emeagwali, an African and
: an African history scholar, would not utter any condemnation of female
: circumcision.  I'm not saying that the latter practice is right, but male
: circumcision in the West is also "mutilation" mostly performed on
: young babies without their consent. And at least one theory states
: that the purpose of male circumcision is the same as female circumcision.

Hi Paul!  Good to see you here.
Maybe you can knock some sense into
some of my opponents here.

[...]

: : Well, as I have never used such terminology myself, I
: : don't see where you have a case against me.  But even
: : on the issue of principle, I wouldn't counsel a grown
: : adult not to read, say, Huckleberry Finn, because I
: : find the terminology, "nigger", to be offensive.  In these
: : matters, I would again advise you to calm your emotions.
: : A person who acts out of emotion can be manipulated,
: : as you amply demonstrate.

: I am familiar with many of S.F. postings and do not recall him describing
: Europeans in this fashion.

Wayne knows it too; we go back a long way.
He iss losing the debate, so he uses the time-honored,
and peculiarly Eurocentric tactic of spraying "DDT"
on his opponent: _D_istort his argument, _D_istract
attention away from points in contention, and _T_rash
your opponent.

[...]


: I'm not sure why Wayne Johnson insists that S.F. believes asili is genetic.


It's a DDT tactic.

: Regards,
: Paul Kekai Manansala

Thanks for the hand.



	 

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