I’ve always liked Noam Chomsky. Sure, there are lots of relevant objections to the various positions he’s expressed over a very long period as a… Public intellectual, in lack of a better term. Especially from within anarchism. The argument that Chomsky functions as controlled opposition, shaping the discourse of political resistance by exemplifying acceptable topics and positions for the ostensibly extreme forms of dissent is also reasonable. Any centrist can concede most of his points, but go any further than Chomsky, and it quickly gets uncomfortable.
Yep. It can be thought that Chomsky had chomskeed himself before in, as they like to say, “the wake of 9/11”. Last month, he chomskeed himself again, this time completely.
Actually...I started "divorcing" Chomsky at the time he started pushing the 'vote the lesser evil', i.e. Hillary Clinton, party line. (No dissent or even arguing allowed, by the way.) Then, shortly after that, I found him deep, deep in bed with the Catalan independentist mafia, signing letters in support of the "political prisoners" and liying outright about the whole Catalan Question on an interview, more through lazy ignorance/poor information or fuzzy knowledge than through bad faith, probably. But for me that was that. So I was not a bit surprised when he took the 'lock 'em all up' position re. the Pantomic. Sic transit gloria.
Et tu, Chomsky?
Yep. It can be thought that Chomsky had chomskeed himself before in, as they like to say, “the wake of 9/11”. Last month, he chomskeed himself again, this time completely.
For anyone unfamiliar with chomskeeing:
My Dictionary: ‘chomskee’
chom·skee / chäm-ˈskē
chomskeed; chomskeeing
Definition of ‘chomskee’
(transitory verb)
1 : To commit intellectual suicide
Actually...I started "divorcing" Chomsky at the time he started pushing the 'vote the lesser evil', i.e. Hillary Clinton, party line. (No dissent or even arguing allowed, by the way.) Then, shortly after that, I found him deep, deep in bed with the Catalan independentist mafia, signing letters in support of the "political prisoners" and liying outright about the whole Catalan Question on an interview, more through lazy ignorance/poor information or fuzzy knowledge than through bad faith, probably. But for me that was that. So I was not a bit surprised when he took the 'lock 'em all up' position re. the Pantomic. Sic transit gloria.