Chris_Sleeps Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 They had names like East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Chomsky cheered them all. I've never read that. Do you have any source? (as the man at the chip shop asked.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callippo Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 I've never read that. Do you have any source? [/i] here's a few : The top 200 Chomsky lies http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/200chomskylies.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Sleeps Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 here's a few : The top 200 Chomsky lies http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/200chomskylies.pdf A 65 page document by Paul Bogdanor, whoever he is, is not a reputable source. I'd like to find the specific words of Chomsky where he celebrates East Germany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 They're good at it and multi-millionaires as a result, and living comfortably on the profits in the main bastion of their faith - the United States. So what's your problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Sleeps Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 I can't find any information on Paul Bogdanor, his website seems to be void of the eternally useful "about me" section. His page of quotes is also full of paraphrasing or articles misquoting conservative magazines, like Quadrant, in Australia. Mr Bogdanor is also trying to call Chomsky an holocaust denier. I've read a lot of Christopher Hitchen's criticisms of Chomsky, and not once does he mention holocaust denial. A topic that big wouldn't've been left alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 A 65 page document by Paul Bogdanor, whoever he is, is not a reputable source. I'd like to find the specific words of Chomsky where he celebrates East Germany. God knows there are enough words of Chomsky available to check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callippo Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 I Mr Bogdanor is also trying to call Chomsky an holocaust denier. no he isn't. He's just saying that Chomsky professionally associated with Holocaust deniers, and came out in support of the rights of Holocaust deniers to disseminate Holocaust denial by denying that the gas chambers existed and so on, which is undeniably true - Chomsky came out and said it was perfectly OK for people to write books, and go on television etc and say this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 no he isn't. He's just saying that Chomsky professionally associated with Holocaust deniers, and came out in support of the rights of Holocaust deniers to disseminate Holocaust denial by denying that the gas chambers existed and so on, which is undeniably true - Chomsky came out and said it was perfectly OK for people to write books, and go on television etc and say this. Well it is. You might not like it, it might all be lies, but why should people not have the right to question history? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callippo Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Chomsky : a disgraceful career http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/a-disgraceful-career-1111 One of the main reasons Noam Chomsky’s political views are taken seriously in universities and the media is because he has an awesome reputation for scientific accomplishment in the field of linguistics. He is among the ten most cited authors in the humanities—trailing only Marx, Lenin, Shakespeare, the Bible, Aristotle, Plato, and Freud—and the only living member of the top ten. Last year The New Yorker called him “one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century.” Were it not for this status, many of his obsessive and outlandish political ideas would by now have disqualified him from reasoned debate. He thinks every president of the United States since Franklin Roosevelt should have been impeached because “they’ve all been either outright war criminals or involved in serious war crimes.” He claims the United States actively collaborated with the Nazis against the Soviet Union in the latter stages of World War II. He once supported the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, claiming the genocidal evacuation of Phnom Penh in 1976 was due to a failed rice crop and “may actually have saved many lives.” He describes Israel as a terror state with “points of similarity” to the Third Reich. And he has defended an anti-Semitic French academic who claims the Holocaust was a “historical lie.” Chomsky describes him as nothing more than an “apolitical liberal” whose work is based on “extensive historical research.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andygardener Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Well it is. You might not like it, it might all be lies, but why should people not have the right to question history? Holocaust deniers have the right to question history, gravity deniers have the right to question gravity. A possible solution would be to throw the holocaust deniers out of a plane at 30K' near the splat spot where the gravity deniers are gathered and see if the gravity deniers change their mind on the subject of gravity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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