Alright, once again, this time without quoting from articles: I don't think this specific, reiterated claim ("they" - be it Indo-European scholars, some churches, the Western/Eastern World - are racists against Turks/Basques/Finns/Hungarians/Germans/Marsians whatever) was covered in any of the cited articles. It's also common among amateur "linguists" and conspiracy theorists in general to confuse and mix the Indo European languages (or the work of linguists) with arbitrary claims about some kind of Indo-European people(s).
The idealised, reconstructed Proto-Indo European language (PIE) was never actually spoken by anyone (what a shock). There are no (serious) claims among (contemporary and most of the former) linguists concerning Indo-European people(s). Those have the same scientific status as the Bigfoot - there will always be people claiming to have found them but there's no scientific proof whatsoever. But both of those are of no consequence for a hypothetical PIE - simply because it works as a thesis.
It not only can be used to show and explain the relations between individual, natural languages (through sound
laws (
Lautverschiebung) being only one example) but also to make predictions/give explanations of sound patterns (
Lautgestalt) of actually spoken but not always passed words of (for example) extinct languages or ancestors/pre-stages of contemporary languages. In some cases later findings of written sources confirmed the primarly only reconstructed expressions (for example in the case of Gothic), or in cases where they didn't fit, led to a change of the principles (Verner's law being one of many examples).
As it's the case with, again for example, Etruscan, archaeology and linguistics work together - for example in the case of the relation between Etruscan and Raetic. (For the theory and documents concerning the relation between Etruscan and Raetic cf. Helmut RIX, Rätisch und Etruskisch. In: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, Vorträge und kleinere Schriften 68 (199
.; if you can bear the layout and font - especially the colour - you can download the Spring 2003 newsletter of the Institute of Etruscan and Italic studies from
here which contains a review of Rix', who sadly died in a car accident in 2004, article (pages 18-20); the review also includes a (shortened) example of how such comparative, historical linguistics actually works.)
As far as linguistics as a science is concerned there are no speculations concering Indo-Europeans (as there are also no speculations, for example, concercing the origin of the Etruscans) and there's no illusion about the actual reality of a/one/the spoken PIE (there are many (explanatory) theories why there are those obvious relations between the different Indo-European languages though - still nothing about some Indo-European people(s) themselves). There will always be some lunatics claiming they found ("the real") Indo-Europeans in Scandinavia, the Black Sea area or somewhere else (and other lunatics arguing against it; as it's the case with all these alleged, single and unique
Urvölker: see everything ancalimon ever wrote) - but that's of no concern for linguistics and certainly doesn't proof some kind of illusionary racist, religious conspiracy and/or Eurocentrism of (contemporary) Indo-European scholars or linguists in general.
All of the above is of course illegitimately abbreviating and therefore not strictly accurate (or accurate at all) - but seeing which thread this is (and considering that there are hundreds of (up to date) books about it for anyone being genuinly interested in (historical, comparative) lingustics (or etymology), as well as the possibility to actually study it instead of using "google translate" in an eternal search for "sound pattern similiarities" between contemporary languages) I think I rightfully don't care.
I still have nearly 2 weeks of vacation and it seems I'm already bored - Kampradturk obviously abandoned me.