Re: The Full Chomsky

2004-11-12 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 11 Nov 2004 at 14:21, John Young wrote: Chomsky, [...] He makes no apology for his attacks on apologists for the powerful, he is merely better at it than they are. Wherever the master's boot smashes into the face of a child, we can rely on Chomsky to deny the master's crimes, while

RE: The Full Chomsky

2004-11-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Now I certainly don't agree with a lot of Chomsky, bvut this dude clearly has an axe to grind. For instance, After 9/11, he was more concerned about a fictitious famine in Afghanistan than about the nearly 3,000 incinerated in The World Trade Center attacks. What a fucking idiot. The 3000 were

Re: The Full Chomsky

2004-11-11 Thread John Young
But James, it is a no-brainer to refute an argument with selective use of an opponents words, phrases, quotations, arguments and beliefs. Debaters are trained and hired to do just this as are propagandists, spin doctors, psychiatrists, journalists, scholars, historians, pr pros, courtiers,

Re: The Full Chomsky

2004-11-11 Thread James A. Donald
-- Tyler Durden wrote: What a fucking idiot. The 3000 were already dead, the 'famine' was about-to-be. A Chomsky nut could say Chomsky helped avert complete catastrophe [...] But this misses the point. Mr Donald will no doubt chime in yammering on about Chomsky's lies, but that also