• Numberone
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    5 months ago

    Don’t know the exact context to this story because it just popped up on my feed, but it reminds me of a Chomsky interview about his book “Manufacturing concent”. The book deals with the western media and how it controls conversations by setting the overton window.

    ​Andrew Marr: How can you know that I’m self-censoring? How can you know that journalists are…

    ​Noam Chomsky: I’m not saying you’re self-censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you’re saying. But what I’m saying is that if you believed something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.

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      5 months ago

      Noam Chomsky should be dug up and thrown into the sea, what a fucking Asshole and a prime example that america was never the good guys

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        5 months ago

        I mean the US not being the good guy was the distillation of his message.

        Another person spoke about his Epstein connection which has come out recently, which is a huge disappointment. All I can say is that like 15 years ago, people like him, Norm Finkelstein and Chris Hedges helped to plant me on the left. Finding out about Epstein has been difficult to understand given his work and the effect it had on me.

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          Noam Chomsky is an asshole for many reason aside from this one quote, look im sorry but i have no idea how you didn’t notice his awful behaviors, this post only scratches the surface, he guided people but if you look deeper you realize its just a superficial cover for awful action and self-interest, its actually surprisingly similar to what Charley Kerk was doing only his speech being con coded to push fascist ideas instead and well… he didn’t get as far as Noam. you not noticing until only recently really shows how easy it is to trick large groups of people, its an aspect of us that has always bothered me.

          Epstine has proven the upper crust is comprised of evil people, they cant deny that anymore. gonna be honest, don’t have heros, be a hero you wish to see in others, good luck fam.

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            5 months ago

            There are plenty of good arguments against chomsky, but they sure as hell aren’t coming from r/neoliberal

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        5 months ago

        Yeah, I honestly don’t know what to make of that, it’s personally a real letdown as Chomsky’s power came from truth telling and moral clarity, and then he hangs out with that fucking pedo. I’m not sure what he was accused of specifically. I thought it was that he had dinners with Epstein. I hadn’t heard he advised him. That’d be next level bad.

        However, I don’t think that changes his analysis. Either it’s valid or not.

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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        5 months ago

        Imagine if all the physics Hawking wrote became invalid because he knew a sex trafficker. Why even bring that up.