"you’re intellectually dishonest, have no curiosity, know nothing, and are racist”"

Why lie? I have said absolutely none of this. In fact, you kicked off our conversation with the charming, "There are so many errors here it is hard to keep up..."

The closest is that I said it "feels as if you're being wilfully dishonest." I'm explaining how what you're saying seems to me. As Dave pints out above, there's a difference between an option and an attack. And this was in response to you talking as if freed blacks, during slavery, were treated with any kind of dignity because "the law code specifically addressed blacks."

I haven't played wounded at all. In fact, I've largely ignored your many insults and jabs. You, on the other hand, keep trying to twist my words into personal attacks when they haven't been. But I'm not going to continue to ignore obvious bad faith and lies.

If this is what you call setting the table for civil discussion then I'll stop wasting my time.