Re: Waradpande seems to have destroyed PIE already

In article <16pjbzz3stbjx$.oy9e76xgjias.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>,
"Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:42:50 -0800 (PST),
"benlizro@xxxxxxxxxx" <benlizro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:4920518b-b43f-40fe-aa72-fbed9dfe5aaf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
in sci.lang:

On Nov 29, 11:04 pm, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

I saw the implications of your answer and replied to the
rat tail of consequences. The general problem is the
question of science and racism. Academe is full of
racism, also schoolbooks, also the Usenet. In the late
1990s Brian M. Scott told me that before the Greeks
nobody was able of a theoretical insight.

Either you're a liar, or you're incapable of understanding
what you read.

A plain racist statement, and he never took it back.

Can't: I didn't make it in the first place.

Ross Clark is a friend of Eric Stevens, and this Eric
Stevens is an adept of a German Nazi and SS man who
prolonged SS archaeology into the post war era, giving a
sugar coated version of the Nazi ideology, according to
which the Greeks were Germans, and according to which
the old formula "ex oriente lux" is wrong - all
originated in the north. My aim is a fair history of
civilization that acknowledges all contributions, and
when I attest an important role to Ice Age Europe there
is an all deciding difference between me and the Nazi
ideology: I say that the evolution and development of
civilization took many turns, there is not a direct line
between CroMagnons and Aryans, the legacy of the Ice Age
spread eastward and southward, and only the great
civilizations of Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia
and India made ancient Greek, Rome, and Europe possible:
ex oriente lux. Considering all the racism in academe,
in schoolbooks, and in the Usenet, I can't find any
trace of blatant racism in the publications of the
Institute for the Study of Man, so I go on relying on
the Proceedings of the Annual UCLA Indo-European
Conference. Now, killrating mob of sci.lang, killrate my
message while leaving the message of the adept of Graham
Hankook, another veiled racist, unrated.

I'm amazed to find my name mentioned on one of those rare
occasions when I actually look at one of Franz's posts. I
had considered him an incurable but basically harmless
kook. Now he seems to have caught the "Nazi-hunting" bug
from analys... or somebody.

Just to put some factual checks on his free-associations:
Eric Stevens and I live in the same city, but we've never
met, and only rarely communicated off-line. All this
Nazi/SS stuff that Eric is supposed to be a follower of
is news to me, after reading his posts for several years.

Likewise. I think that Eric's a bit of a kook, but Franz's
accusation is absurd.

[...]

Brian


This accusation appears to hinge on the use of Jurgen Spanuth as a
source about Atlantis. Not much of a basis for the accusation of being
"an adept of a German Nazi." Kook, yes. Nazi adept, no.
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