“May have been,” “if, “if.” Nice victim-blaming, asshole.

You just proved by this very comment that you have NO respect for others.

“Not all Christians”? Don’t be obtuse. She never said they all did.

When I was in my 20s, I used to tell friends “amusing” stories of being sexually molested by a doctor at the age of 11. It was my way of trying to persuade myself that what happened to me wasn’t so bad. It kind of worked, but only for a while.

Exactly. I’m a woman, and I hold doors for men and women alike if they’re close enough to me.

He had them fixed. (Of course! — he was British, after all!)

That’s because he’s 30 years older than she is!

If they call Hillary “Hitlery,” then no, they can’t be “decent folks.”

Don’t you know that anger doesn’t count as an emotion?

And LGBT people, too. My son isn’t looking forward to a Republican president, and neither am I.

Don’t you realize that everything has to be subordinated to the class struggle?

affected!

I’ve seen way too many of them insist that they’ll never vote for Hillary, because there’s no difference between her and the Republicans. How privileged do they have to be (straight white cis male privileged, I think) not to understand the differences, and to believe they won’t be personally effected if a Republican…

I could only respond to what you actually said, in response to me, about “much of it” having been translated, not what you meant. And, in fact, it was very clear that I was talking about the corpus of cuneiform documents, not the one tablet. In any event, despite everything you’ve said, your comments are notably…

You weren’t talking only about this one tablet. Your claim was that “much” of cuneiform literature had been translated into Greek and Persian. Evidence that any Greeks knew how to read cuneiform? Evidence that the Persians translated the Epic of Gilgamesh? Babylonian dream books? Other ancient Near Eastern literature?…

“Much” of it? There are hundreds of thousands of cuneiform tablets, made over a period of 2,000 years or so, in a number of different languages, which nobody even knew about until they were found by archaeologists. Do you really think the Greeks and Persians knew how to read old Akkadian? Or Babylonian translations of…

People are still working on the Herculaneum scrolls with all sorts of modern scientific techniques designed to read them without having to unroll them. Plus, the major portion of the library where they were found still hasn’t even been excavated. So I’m always hopeful that someday a lost ancient Greek play, or a lost…

I really don’t think that by the time of the Muslim conquest, anyone in Babylon still knew how to read cuneiform written considerably more than 1,000 years earlier. Especially given that most of the tablets weren’t dug up until the last few hundred years. Plus, Babylon hadn’t been ruled by actual Babylonians for a…

That’s quite an exaggeration. So did the Byzantines, and so did the Irish monks, and so did the Jews (who, in many cases, were responsible for transmitting knowledge from Islam to Christianity by translating it into Hebrew).

Which just shows that “whiteness” is an entirely constructed and largely meaningless socio-political category, with differing definitions entirely dependent on the chronological period, the geographical location, and the prejudices of the person providing the definition. It doesn’t have much to do with actual skin…