Re: Aryan invasion theory and race

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "shivkhokra" <shivkhokra@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "G&P" <G.and.P@> wrote:
> >

[First form:]

> > Shivraj says:
> > ". we would like to ascertain if . you have bothered to read the original
> > sources?"

> > The first form
> > of the enquiry deliberately includes an attitude and an emotion. Rightly or
> > wrongly, I interpreted this as someone who has already made up their mind,
> > someone unlikely to listen to contradictory evidence or argument or opinion.

<snip>

> Since the perspectives A and B do not conform we asked the obvious questions that why has no one bothered to read the original sources? (BTW we do believe that some historians did read them but decided to toe the AIT line and disregarded the evidence to the contrary).

> So the question to Francesco was correct.

That is not the point. Pete Gray is saying he is deducing that he is not expecting a productive discussion. Conclusions like 'but decided to toe the AIT line and disregarded the evidence to the contrary' further persuade people that a productive discussion is not to be expected.

Richard.