Chomsky was not bad as a linguistics researcher.
Just like Barbra Streisand is not bad as a singer.
Exactly. I found his work on psycholinguistics to be intriguing, and was frankly surprised he would abuse language in the interest of leftist ideologies.
That said, there may be some inroads with my neighbor if we can articulate honestly any weaknesses that attend to raw capitalism. G.K. Chesterton had some words. I will try to look those up, but after I sneeze into my neighbor’s elbow.
Yes, he is bad as a linguistic researcher.
Read Tom Wolfe’s “Kingdom of Speech.” Just a bully, using PC techniques to force ideological assumptions onto a phenomena that Neuroscience is now just finally getting a handle on 30 years later. But, Chomsky was completely wrong, nope.. no inherent grammer structures in the brain, it is an emergent capability.