[tied] Re: The indo european "race"

But Glen, I have been favouring the word fair to the word blond. I
didn't begin the thread, but, mind you, maybe I shouldn't have kept it
alive in a linguistic group.
If you check my mails I refute or at least question the mediterranean
type of this or that, but with logical questions (at least from my
point of view) and an honest spirit. If someone said tomorrow that the
inventor of the wheel was blue eyed would that drive you berserk just
because its «racist» to say blue eyed instead of chinese eyes?
You are right I don't hae any points, but rather questions about a
particular theme.
If it makes you feel better, let me tell you that my physical type is
mediterranean.





--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

> 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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