From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 46311
Date: 2006-10-09
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr GasiorowskiAnd *why* do you think he is pointing out this irrelevance?
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>> On 2006-10-09 05:12, 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)."
>> > Arvidsson, Stefan (2006), Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as
>> > Ideology and Science, translated by Sonia Wichmann, Chicago and
>> > London: The University of Chicago Press.
>> I'm no fan of Roger Pearson, but what on earth does all
>> that have to do with the validity of Indo-European
>> studies? Do you, with Arvidsson, want to insinuate that
>> anyone who has cooperated with Pearson in any way (e.g.
>> by publishing something in the JIES or co-editing the
>> journal) is some sort of neo-Nazi by association and can
>> therefore be suspected of having a neo-Nazi "false
>> consciousness" that affects -- and compromises -- his or
>> her scholarly work? Such suggestions are not merely
>> moronic; they are also libellous: their purpose is to
>> damage the reputation of selected scholars not by
>> confronting their opinions but by character
>> assassination. To take one example, have you read
>> anything written by Anttila? Do you know anything abut
>> his political views? Has he done, said or published
>> anything that could be interpreted as racist? (All the
>> answers are NO.) I'm particularly upset by this case,
>> since I happen to know Raimo Anttila personally. For me,
>> he's a living human being, not a straw likeness of one
>> put up by some fool as a target for mud-throwing
>> practice. Incidentally, being a Finn by birth, with a
>> non-IE language as his mother tongue, he can hardly be
>> suspected of "Aryan idolatry".
>> "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."
> 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.Then why did you post the passage? How does it contribute