Bollocks, stop apologising for a man who openly supports neo-nazism and refuses to call out Putin for what he is.
Chomsky is an intellectual pygmy caught in his own trap. His simple, one-eyed binary worldview has led him to a position where he supports imperialism and neo-nazism.
You guys that call Chomsky a neo-Nazi or "the same as Trump" are lunatics, and a core reason the left never unites to get stuff done.
It's navel-gazing infighting, while the right steamrolls democracy.
I simply do not see any justification to call him a nazi. I do think he's misread the current climate and Russia, but his intellectual legacy or statements simply do not give that justification. I find the need to label him so rashly symptomatic of the black and white thinking of our age.
His default stance that "West = bad thus Other = Good" leads him to condemn Ukraine and those seeking to support it, while absolving Putin because "the naughty west expanded NATO and made him do it"
If he spouts Nazi propaganda non-stop, what's the difference?
We need to be able to look at comments people make based on their actual motivations and intentions, not merely the opinion they happen to be voicing. It is truly damaging public discourse that we constantly fail at this so badly.
The fact that he does not support any fascist policies. To be called a nazi you need to actually think like a nazi, and there is none of that in his comments. That he may have fallen victim to propaganda does not involve turning to fascist aspirations. That is an important distinction.
Further, Chomsky is a theorist. Criticizing his individual comments without considering how they fit into his wider thinking will not allow you to understand them. Neither will it allow you to distinguish them from similar takes built on an entirely different basis.
The contemporary tendency to assume somebody's political/value leaning from isolated opinions or quotes is damaging genuine discourse and creates opportunity for populist manipulation. Chomsky simply cannot be compared to MAGA or Russian sympathizers.
So many words to say he has never acknowledged fucking r*ssia to be imperialist. Yes, he's a theorist, but his "theory" is "USA bad", which is simply a laziness of mind. He is a vatnik and a tankie.
I haven't read him, but when he speaks - interviews, etc. - he definitely and consistently sounds like a tankie. Definitely not just anti-American, but also anti-Ukraine.
I did read as this idiot claimed that Poland will become a literal hell on earth once we drop communism and join the west. So in his head it was better if we stayed with a dictatorship. I will celebrate when old fool is dead.
That's an obvious deflection. You like to throw around insults based on superficial knowledge. Even if you were right about Chomsky, your opinion clearly has no basis. Having an opinion is meaningless if it's not backed up by more than moral feelings. MAGA acts purely on moral feelings.
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Chomsky is an intellectual pygmy caught in his own trap. His simple, one-eyed binary worldview has led him to a position where he supports imperialism and neo-nazism.
It's navel-gazing infighting, while the right steamrolls democracy.
Those were all bad, and USSR did the same.
But just because Iraq was bad doesn't mean 'West = Bad, Others = Good', which is the trap Chomsky fell into.
His default stance that "West = bad thus Other = Good" leads him to condemn Ukraine and those seeking to support it, while absolving Putin because "the naughty west expanded NATO and made him do it"
If he spouts Nazi propaganda non-stop, what's the difference?
He is now a fascist.