I fully accept that gates exist as need keeping, and Jason Colavito is an effective keeper of the gates. Except when he isn't; and he has a bad habit of falling upon college-basement tropes ("homophobia!", being common on his blog). So here he is with a mean spirited review, of Manvir Singh. At least Colavito's being honest... this time.
The drive to find a common source of Western languages and mythologies, is a Western drive. Which is natural to Westerners - you'd think. But somehow it's a problematic when Westerners do it; and The New Yorker needs to mention it. Because Whiteness.
The fun part is that Singh doesn't engage in any of the pseudohistory that spawned from this drive... and isn't even Western. He's probably one of those Baltoslav offshoots given his name. Actually given Singh's name you'd think Colavito would be more interested in how he's bucking the Out Of India theories.
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