The toothpaste is out of the tube and can't be put back in! TOO LATE!
Posted on 07/07/2020 4:18:18 PM PDT by NoLibZone
I wouldn’t touch Noam Chomsky with a thousand foot pole.
Thanks for that.
Says it all.
Yeah it was fun and a great tool to suppress people who we do not like but now we are targetted it’s no longer okay.
The toothpaste is out of the tube and can't be put back in! TOO LATE!
"But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second."
How ironic - the first, that they adore, directly causes the second, which they deplore - so they put themselves in a loop.
I wondered about Chomsky also. However, he strikes me as a gutless individual when the fireworks start.
Chomsky may lack fortitude but his translational grammar theories are found everywhere in the language of the post modern marxists.
I doubt anyone wants to read anything additional about the reprehensible POS Chomsky, so...
Chomsky was recruited to the far left as a child in the 1930s by relatives active in the Soviet-controlled International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. He drifted towards anarcho-syndicalism, which allowed him to posture as a non-Stalinist while still serving Marxist ends. He was one of the earliest Vietnam War protestors in the United States, and the Vietcong included him on a list of sympathizers they used to distribute propaganda during the Vietnam War. He became a Pol Pot apologist in the 1970s, a Sandinista supporter in the 1980s, a promoter of East Timorese independence in the 1990s, and an ally of Muslim terrorists in the 2000s, and a supporter of the Occupy movement in the 2010s. He’s been involved in debates among Marxists over whether it’s more strategic to support Bernie Sanders or Hillary/Biden. If he’s opposed to “cancel culture,” it’s because he’s on one side of an internal division among Marxists.
Surprised even radical Chomsky is in there...
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