AbolisyonistaFunny that anarchists should listen to Chomsky because he supported Russia but also anarchism is infantile because Chomsky is on the Epstein list. Bruh, anarchists don't care about Chomsky. Justified hierarchies and campism guy? Disbelieve the Cambodian genocide guy? Come on.
McPoops@abolisyonista it's funny to me how authcoms think Chomsky is some sort of anarchist god, as if we have sacred dogmatic figures like they do. Nearly every anarchist I've ever met refuses to even acknowledge him as one or has disavowed him years ago. He's always been a cunt, going back when he'd attack other linguists for suggesting his pseudoscientific ideas of biologically innate language were fucking stupid, because they were.
Jacqueline@abolisyonista Chomsky is functionally a liberal. He supports voting for the Democratic party.
He isn't even an "authcom" or whatever.
komali_2@abolisyonista Chomsky is weird but he never denied KR genocide. He wrote a review of a book, in which he explicitly pointed out the atrocities but then pointed out that some of the sources used by the book weren't very reliable.
Here's his response when someone wrote to ask him directly about it https://jamiemetzl.com/noam-chomsky-and-the-cambodian-genocide/
Or just read the review itself, where he wrote "... a grisly account of what refugees have reported to him about the barbarity of their treatment at the hands of the KR."
@abolisyonista the author of the book got salty about Chomsky questioning some of his sources and just invented an accusation whole cloth against him that persisted for decades.
> Even before this book was translated it was sharply criticised by Mr Noam Chomsky... They say there have been no massacres, and they lay the blame for the tragedy of the Khmer people on the American bombings.
Chomsky and his co-reviewer never wrote anything like that, dude just made it up.
@abolisyonista summary:
> Atrocities should be condemned wherever they occur... But that is not the way the world works... atrocities committed by enemies are highlighted..., while those committed by friends are ignored... This double standard was the main target of our criticism... Cambodia was one case among many. East Timor... was a contemporary case of comparable or greater horror, yet it received almost no attention..., because the perpetrators were allies of the West.
@abolisyonista obviously the Epstein thing is fuckin gross though
@komali_2 yeah I'm aware, that's why I said disbelieve rather than deny.
very normal person@abolisyonista i find his linguistics offensive personally