[Ads-l] Enslavement of Native Americans [was: wench (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Z Rice
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> Subject: Re: Enslavement of Native Americans [was: wench
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> Mr. Berson, in regard to your comment, you can read my first paragraph addressing Mr. Barrett on what my motive is for not wanting to
> reduce myself to going back and forth on this. Trust that you have absolutely no insight on my reasoning.
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> 

I have no insight in at least some of your reasoning; and neither (I suppose) do other members of the List.  Thus, the respectful follow up questions that some of us are asking, which you blithely dismiss rather than answer.  Of course, you are under no obligation to do so.

But you are posting here, so it would seem that you have a point you wish to make.  If we don't understand it, what's the harm spending a little more time in explaining it to us?  (You wouldn't be "reducing yourself" by doing so, unless you really consider yourself to be on some higher plane than the rest of us.  Maybe it's like the t-shirt -- "It's a Black Thing -- You Wouldn't Understand".) 
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