Re: [tied] Re: Horses’ Teeth and the Indo-European Homeland

At 1:39:25 PM on Tuesday, September 23, 2008, mkelkar2003 wrote:

>>> To advance their own goals, Nazi racists, American
>>> skinheads, Russian nationalists, and Hindu fundamentalists
>>> have all latched on to the idea of light-skinned and
>>> chariot-driving Aryans as bold purveyors of an early Indo-
>>> European culture, which came to dominate Eurasia.

>> [...]

>>>> Lawler (2008)is wrong about the "Hindu fundmentalist."

>>> To clarify on my original comment, Lawler (2008) is wrong
>>> because right leaning parties in India are opposed to the
>>> AIT.

>> Indeed. And water runs downhill.

>>> They have not latched on to it, which, as I understand
>>> means supported it.

>> You misunderstand it. As I pointed out two days ago.

> I understand it correctly.

You do not, as any competent native speaker of English could
tell you. He means simply that all of those groups have
fixated on this idea and used it to advance their own goals.
In the case of the first three groups, the fixation is
positive; in the case of the Hindu fundamentalists, it is of
course negative. The fixation itself, however, is obvious
in their refusal to acknowledge that it doesn't represent
current scholarship: it's too handy a straw man.

> Lawler (2008) has not done his homework.

On this point he is entirely correct; you simply don't
understand him.

Brian