On the Rohingya issue

I have a post over at my primary blog, Rohingya Unmasking Complexity In A World We Want Simple. Because the Rohingya issue is going to be in the media spotlight for a bit in the near future we need to be clear about the deep historical facts, which frankly the press is going to not be concerned about in their reporting.

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Razib Khan

Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary. Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin.

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Zimriel
Zimriel
8 years ago

I have a meta-question, basically hoping to understand BrownPundits as a site. Is there a reason you posted the full Chittagong / Rohingya article over in GNXP rather than here?

I’ve been treating BP as the India-centric site, where GNXP is more for general human anthropology and for you in particular. Obviously the Subcontinent has more of an interest in the Rohingya than the average Westerner does.

Is it that the article you posted on GNXP is meant to explain the Rohingya (and Chittagong, and Old Islamicate Bengal, &c.) to a non-Indian audience? If so, can this site’s Indian readers expect a parallel article explaining the situation to them? (India is a big place, so I assume that not all Indians know the situation as well as you do, and might find such an article of use.)

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