You wrote: “The amendment is written clearly in support of continued legalized slavery. I will leave it to you to do the analysis.”

Translation: “I have no idea what I’m talking about and am just fumbling about incoherently to defend a dumb point I can’t support in claiming that an amendment that obviously, clearly and plainly bans slavery is actually ‘clearly written in support of continued legalized slavery,’ so … um … you try to figure out what I’m saying because I sure as heck can’t do it.”

You wrote: “The true subjugation of Blacks are entrenched in how laws are written to exploit that which is written in as legal in the amendment.”

Translation: “I can’t even write a sentence that contains subject-verb agreement (‘subjugation … are’?), much less one that makes sense, so instead, I’ll just write some vague nonsense, and hopefully, it’ll use enough buzzwords to get a few mindless buffoons to agree with me.”

You wrote: “Since you do not know your history, it would be best for you to study — if you care to. Until then, you cannot debate me on any of this.”

Translation: “I cannot debate you on substance, so instead, I’m going to throw out a few ad hominems and insults to assert my intellectual superiority and end any possibility of reasoned engagement, since reasoned engagement and discussion are two things I’m not that good at.”

You wrote: “I am pleased to see such a visceral reaction to this piece as it further solidifies my belief that Black people coming together in unity is indeed a frightening thing for many.”

Translation: “You really identified some very basic and fundamental flaws in what I wrote, and I have no good responses to offer to your specific and detailed objections, so maybe if I just say that you’re frightened of black people coming together and collectively embracing anti-white racism, that’ll make people cheer me on and forget about how racist and outright dumb some of the statements in my article were.”