Re: Misra, Bryant and Indigenous-Nationalist Conflation

From: vishalsagarwal
Message: 12932
Date: 2002-03-29

--- In cybalist@..., "wtsdv" <liberty@...> wrote:
> But Vishal, Piotr has spoken out about the ethnocentrism of some
> Europeans. The only one that I remember specifically was Sergei
> Rjabchikov, a fellow Slav,

VA: I am not aware of these fellow slav clearly stated if they were
not ethnocentric. In Mishra's case, he has often clarified that not
only is he not a Hindu nationalist, he is opposed to this ideology
and is infact wary of his views being co-opted by others.
This has been stated on the list through Edwin Bryant as well as
through Hock.
Why should then someone mistrust Mishra's intentions? Or judge his
ideological affiliations?

My point was that if this is the way people will go about branding
people from India with non-mainstream (and possibly wrong) views on
IE linguistics with various ideological affiliations, there is an
even greater reason to brand IE specialists with all kinds of
epithets because of historical AND PRESENT reasons.

The fact is the Piotr WILL NOT use the same standards to judge Witzel
as a German Nationalist or an Aryanist. Nor will you.

Does that not say it all?