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Tbh, I had been more and more annoyed and frustrated and alarmed with Chomsky over the years as I’ve paid more attention to him and his stance on modern issues. He was hailed as some sort of modern oracle for so long, and I feel like he just doesn’t really deserve nearly that much respect anymore. I don’t know if it’s senility or a boomer-ification of his thought processes or what, but I have vastly less respect for him than I once did. And learning of his defense of Epstein kind of nuked any remaining respect I had.
I'm already pretty agist but the man is nearly 100 years old and if I'm honest the number of 75 plus year olds I have met who are still as sharp as they were is less than 50 percent for sure.
When people are like " I can't believe such and such would say or do this" and they are old I just assume senility.
Well, he wrote in defense of the Kamer Rouge in the 70s and 80s.
All because Pol Pot claimed to be communist.
The man lived in luxury while starving, and murdering, his people.
Which is how every single dictator pretending to be communist has acted since Lenin betrayed the revolution and appointed himself king while killing the actual communists of Russia.
But the point here is that Chompsky has always fallen for this line of bullshit.
If someone feeds him a story and claims that the CIA or some capitalist corporations did it, then Chompsky will buy it. If someone claims to be "of the people" he'll buy that too.