This post clarifies my previous post and appends a few points of interest.
Of course, StanB, a racist, is still 'beneath human dispute'.

(Nick) wrote in message . com...
"StanB" wrote in message ...
Nick fancies himself quite the well read savant and communicates by quoting
various abstract analogies that may or may not relating to his
wrist-wringing constipation of the moment. Such brow-beating is what
prompted me to begin referring to him as Bwana.

No, evidently StanB began inappropriately addressing me as 'Bwana' because he
has negatively stereotyped me as a black African.

'Bwana' is a term of address in Swahili; most Africans do *not* speak Swahili.
During the First World in Africa, the King's African Rifles, a famous colonial
regiment of the British Army, had a distinctive marching song, a Swahili
adaptation of the traditional Welsh song, 'Men of Harlech':

We le goelcerth wen yn fflamio,
A thafodau tan yn bloeddio,
Ar i'r dewrion ddod I daro,
Unwaith eto'n un.
Gan fanllefau tywysogion
Llais gelynion, trwst arfogion,
A charlamiad y marchogion,
Craig ar craig a gryn!...

Can StanB recognise the differences between Swahili and Welsh? :-)

One wonders if he ever has an original thought or just mucks about picking
quotes and grinning. When pointed to the current bit of genocide going on in
even that country where all are supposed to be bigoted against, he passes on
an original thought and falls back to a rendition of: Mommy, those American
bigots are at it again. Yet, intra-race bigotry is well known even there.
In the last century where have most acts of genocide taken place? Is not
genocide the apex of bigotry? So it can be understood why Bwana has the
devils of bigotry in control of his heart.

For the record, StanB never has met me, and he knows nearly nothing about me.

But StanB has written condemnations of the cultural practices of my supposed
'homeland' without ever being able to identify which 'homeland' that he's
condemning. Of course, StanB can continue expressing his racism without being
deterred by any logic. And StanB can imply that I condone genocide and write
that 'it can be understood why Bwana has the devils of bigotry in control of
his heart' without being deterred by any vestigial sense of decency in
himself.

For the sake of clarity, that last sentence should have been written as:
"And StanB can imply that I condone genocide and *he can* write that 'it can
be understood why Bwana has the devils of bigotry in control of his heart'
without being deterred by any vestigial sense of decency in himself."

For example, I think back to a professor I studied under at the University.
If memory serves he had a soft accent and was native to Uganda. An amicable
gentleman who confided to the class that he would like a job in Industry but
his race held him back. I couldn't help wonder what the result would be if
he wore clean clothes and deodorant to the job interview. You see, his was a
summer class and he wore the same soiled white shirt each sweltering day.
The yellow perspiration rings under his arms would probably never come out
no matter how well he washed his shirt. Perhaps acceptable in his culture
but one can only speculate on how his chances would be after a shower and an
attempt to reflect the host culture. Savage? Never. A very gentle man. Dark?
He was dark skinned if that is the proper connotation of Nick's word.

StanB has distorted the context of the traditional racist term, 'dark savage'.
'Dark savage' was what StanB could have used to describe me(not his professor)
because StanB has flagrantly mischaracterised me as someone who could enjoy
the cultural practices of cannibalism, murder, and (now implicitly) genocide.
StanB's other racist rationalizations warrant no comment by me.

I cannot resist making one conjecture. Apparently, StanB believes that even
any perceptions of racism in the United States should suddenly disappear if
only all the non-whites there could be trained enough to improve their personal
grooming to pass white American standards (if not to 'pass' as white Americans).

If StanB were appointed as the United States Attorney for (allegedly) Civil
Rights, then might he not be expected urgently to distribute free samples of
deodorant throughout African American neighborhoods?

'Why, might there not be men in Africa of as fine feelings as ourselves, of
as enlarged understandings, and as manly in their minds as any of us?'
--Charles Jame Fox (April 1791, speech in the British House of Commons)

'Red, yellow, black, white,
Mix the colours up together.
All people are brothers
From one father and one mother.'
--I.L. Peretz (freely translated from the Yiddish)

You stand there with a straight face and applaud your FIDE's brothers and
not one word of justice for women. Larisa Yudina must be turning in her
grave.

I.L. Peretz's line is translated as 'All people are brothers' (not 'sisters')
because it has to approach rhyming with 'From one father and one mother'.
Translating that line as 'All people are brothers and sisters' also would be
metrically inconsistent with the verse.

StanB seems desperate to contrive any pretext for another ad hominem attack on
me. For the record, in this thread's previous discussions, there was *no* issue
of 'justice for women' *ever* mentioned or implied.

Speaking here of belated justice for one woman scientist, however, I have been
pleased that Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)--'the Dark Lady of DNA'--has begun
to receive more credit for her important pioneering contributions toward
comprehending the structure of DNA, despite having been posthumously maligned
by James Watson in his classic book, 'The Double Helix'.

By the way, the appellation, 'the Dark Lady of DNA', alludes to the unknown
heroine of Shakespeare's sonnets, not to her supposed African racial complexion.
Rosalind Franklin was an Englishwoman of Jewish heritage, who did not speak
Swahili; it also would be inappropriate for StanB to address her, as he does
me, as 'Bwana'.

For further reading: 'Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA' by Brenda Maddox

StanB has professed to admire Mark Twain as a writer. If StanB were to
read Twain's essays, then he would find that Mark Twain denounced American
racism against the Chinese and bloody American imperialism in the
Philippines.

Ancient history and with scant resemblance to today. A quote one would
expect from an uneducated charlatan.

The very bloody American conquest of the Philippines may be 'ancient history'
to StanB, but it's still remembered only too painfully by many Filipinos.
What resemblance it would have to American imperialism today remains to be
seen.

Whom does StanB regard as 'an uneducated charlatan', Mark Twain or me?
StanB has professed to admire Mark Twain as a writer. On the other hand,

In the thread, 'A new enemy of Lev Khariton' (21 April 2003), Larry Tapper
wrote to me:
"I've been enjoying your scholarly digressions, Latin epigrams, etc..."

Then in that same thread on that same date, Tim Hanke wrote to Larry Tapper
about me:
"I too enjoy his (my) scholarly digressions, Latin epigrams, etc..."

So when will StanB denounce Tim Hanke for his stupidity in having been so
impressed by 'an uneducated charlatan' like me? :-)

--Nick