Not really.
By sabotaging a legitimate possible discussion with trolling? That is not the “high” road unless it involves pot or crystal meth.
You never raised the issue of “immense impact,” which would have been a legitimate point. Instead, you falsely overstated a claim that the (what you now refer to as) “impact” was the be-all and end-all of influence.
Stop weaseling about what you now pretend was your intention. You already destroyed your credibility and no one is going to believe you.
Without having read any of his other posts or context (his posts in this thread are hard to read and understand) - he is actually right of course.
The human race came from Africa, so without Africa, there would be no Europeans around, either. (Or a different species, maybe).
The rest of his post may be debatable. Carry on.
I think it’s possible scamartistry is not trolling. Unfortunately the other option is that he’s dim, has poor communication skills, and doesn’t know how to make an argument. scamartistry, the topic as posted was very, very stupid. If you’re not trolling, why did you make that post in Great Debates and a much better one in the Pit?
SCAMMY, you’re a fucking troll,
I fuck you out of the scammies…
scammy, you’re a fucking troll,
Your fleece is white as snow…
Scammy! You’re a! Fucking troll,
In the forests of the… eh, I got nothin’.
White Americans didn’t invent slavery, but they sure as hell fought a very bloody and costly war to put an end to it in this country. Slavery existed in Africa before the white man ever came, and still exists there TODAY.
But that belittles the enormous influence the Pangaeans had on the later African cultures.
Don’t we have some sort of checklist for the various steps trolls go through?
Troll posts provocative, incoherent nonsense
People point out that it is indeed incoherent nonsense.
Troll smirks that clearly he (or, rarely, she) is being persecuted for challenging the sheeple groupthink of the board and that clearly the rest of us are all too awed by the troll’s intellectual prowess and grasp of the real truth to be able to refute the aforementioned incoherent nonsense.
After a few repetitions of steps 2) and 3) the thread degenerates into general abuse.
Thread gets locked.
Troll starts five more threads of the same sort and likely on the same topic.
Troll gets banned.
Did I miss anything out?
I think if this guy (also born in Mongolia) were still around, he’d offer a pretty strong refutation of your “thesis”.
NM.
You just made the fundie shit list, my friend.
God Bless White America! [Seriously, I guess this is true, but what the hell does this have to do with any of scamartistry’s gibberish?]
Under that reasoning slavery did not in fact end in your country and still exists today also.
Part of post #28 of the GD thread is this:
So, every black male in America is going to steal a car sooner or later?
So, without our cars being stolen, chaos would erupt?
How does that compare to this post (this thread):
Morality? But I thought they steal cars? Or is stealing cars a moral act?
In conclusion, considering that you admit to being born in Mongolia, and not being a native English speaker (post # 18 this thread), may I humbly suggest that you may not know the U.S. as well as you think you do.
I’m pretty sure Scammy doesn’t actually believe what he’s saying. He’s really doing a decent trolling job here.
I’d rather do whole skits.
White Americans did invent the color line, which is the source of most of America’s current ethnic tensions.
http://backintyme.com/essays/item/12
Don’t try to weasel out of this with fake claims of nobility. They invented an idiotic, immoral, impractical system to maintain the profits of the landed gentry, and their descendants died in a bloody war as a result. Entirely America’s fault.