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To: miloklancy
We're studying Chomsky's linguistic syntax this spring. It sure isn't the grammer my gramma knew.
9 posted on 12/11/2003 10:38:26 AM PST by RightWhale (Close your tag lines)
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To: RightWhale
You should study rhetoric too. Chomsky's quite slick:

In the West, fortunately, it scarcely exists now, though it did in the past.

Obviously wrong. Is he just ill-informed?

There is, of course, what the Anti-Defamation League calls "the real anti-Semitism", more dangerous than the old-fashioned kind: criticism of policies of the state of Israel and US support for them, opposition to a vast US military budget, etc.

Clever move. Name an enemy. Attribute an untruth to it. (That this group said the "real" anti-semitism is "more dangerous" than the "old"...an easy, false strawman to tear down, plus he relocates the argument to the US military bugaboo.

In contrast, anti-Arab racism is rampant.

"Arab" should read as "Islam". The study of it is a threat to Chomsky's limited world-view in sync with Arab obsessions with Israel and Jews.

The manifestations are shocking, in elite intellectual circles as well, but arouse little concern because they are considered legitimate: the most extreme form of racism.

I haven't seen this, but perhaps for Chomsky any reading or analysis of Arab opinions, etc. that don't confirm his projects.

Of course, he could just be pandering to his reader-base, the ones who give him money via book-buys.

13 posted on 12/11/2003 10:48:15 AM PST by Shermy
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