--- Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chomsky is generally repulsive - but people who claim the dissent is marginalized should remember that this anti-Semitic, anti-American bigot is the most cited scientist in the world, and not just because of his linguistics. When he spoke at Harvard while I was there he spoke to a packed and laudatory house, while Harvard professors introduced him as a legendary "American dissident". Being an apologist for totalitarian dictators gets you brownie points on the modern left, apparently.
Katha Pollitt, among many other things, famously forbade her daughter from flying an American flag after September 11th because it was a symbol of, IIRC, jingoism and hate. If that _doesn't_ bother you, then it explains why the left has no traction in the United States. If it does, remember that the right's extremists are policed by the right as much as by the left, and it might be worth thinking why someone who believes that edits _The Nation_, the most influential magazine of the Left in America. Pat Buchanan doesn't exactly run National Review. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
