Re: [tied] Re: Excerpts from Aryan Idols by Stefan Arvidsson (2006)

On 2006-10-09 17:59, mkelkar2003 wrote:

>>> "Most notable is perhaps that no one reacted to the fact that the
>>> editor of the world-leading journal for research on the
>>> Indo-Europeans, Journal of Indo-European Studies, Roger Pearson, had
>>> since the 1950's has been "one of America's foremost Nazi apologists
>>> and quite clearly a racist with one of the world's best web of
>>> contacts." Before Pearson, along with Marija Gimbutas , Edgar C.
>>> Polome' and Raimo Antilla, founded the Journal of Indo-European
>>> Studies, he had worked with Hans F. K. Gunther, who had continued to
>>> spread his racial doctrines after the fall of the Third Reich.
>>> Pearson was also chairman of the American Division of the World Anti
>>> Communist League and lobbied in Washington for more funds for the
>>> Defense, the Contras, and the UNITA guerillas. Together with Polome',
>>> one of the United States' leading researchers in the area of Germanic
>>> religion, he has also published the academic, racist journal the
>>> Mankind Quarterly (Arvidsson 2006, p. 304)."


> If one reads the above sentence carefully, Arvidsson is saying that
> Pearson's activities were *before* he founded the JIES with certain
> other individuals. I do not think he is insinuating anything. Thanks!

If one reads it really carefully, paying attention to the use of tenses,
one finds that only Pearson's cooperation with Gunther was earlier than
the establishment of the JIES. And if no harm is meant, what's the
purpose of all that gossip and naming of names?

Piotr