2nd February 2012, 10:39 PM
BAJR Wrote:You see, quintaine, perhaps you have not encountered it enough to give a damn - but try dealing with it daily... I am an archaeologist, and damned be him that thinks just putting the word into their title makes them one. Earn it, prove it, and act like one. That is all I ask of an archaeologist.Well obviously you have made the decision. You have dictated what should be studied and what groups are entitled to engage with archaeology, at least on this forum and from your position. You are using the term neo-colonist not I. You childishly call me names and assassinate my character and make insinuations. I am an archaeologist and I am afraid you cannot take that away, I earned it too. I don't have to prove anything to you. Are you so deluded to think that you can control who can debate archaeological matters in the wider arena, do you think the term is patented?
So to expand the debate. I take it quintaine you are happy ( as Wax says) with Nazi principles in archaeology? or (like my wife has to deal with) both white supremacist websites using archaeology to prove their beleif and then - black power websites claiming african colonisation of South America.
Is ther a line that you feel should not be crossed? Like Wax, I think that following the line youu suggest is just as fraught by the elitist attitude you rail against.
Archaeology for all? Who decides?
When you have nothing useful to bring to a discussion you keep repeating the same old tired joke, a phoney pseudo theory. Do you even know what the expression "no names no packdrills" means - then you go and use the name. Your true colours are exposed, you are a bully, you don't debate, you decree and have everyone fall into line out of fear. The power has evidently gone to your head. I was trying to make valid points and you return with wild childish inuendo and petty retorts and you have the audacity to call yourself an archaeologist.