Michael:
>Proposing what particular race Indo-Europeans were may be
>unrealistic but is not racist in any way, and nowhere did he
>say he believed one race was superior to another.
Um, really, this IS a linguistic forum. Race is so secondary to
Indo-European linguistics. And unfortunately, since there are
still nuts out there that still follow H*tler's propoganda in
relation to Indo-European, when I hear someone obsessing
over the fantasy that Indo-Europeans were blond and blue
eyed raises giant alarm bells in my head.
I mean really, what is so special about blondness to this Siglo
character as opposed to redhair or even dirty blond? How is
a garden-variety recessive gene important here at all???
This isn't gLeN being grumpy, it's about maintaining some
common sense. Siglo has no real point and wants to insist
on some strange ideology. If he wants to persist with it,
he may by all means. But the last thing I want to see in my
mailbox is a bunch of posts about some unattested and
unlinguistic idea. I didn't sign up for that.
= gLeN
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