That's bull....I think Brad deserves an answer. Either that he misquotes NC or that there is an alternative explanantion. There is no one less justified in using an ignorance defense than NC. He never speaks publicly about things unless he "knows" what he is talking about. To the extent that he did research before he wrote (Brad's quotation) he did it poorly (unlikely) to the extent he did no research, he was sloppy (also unlikely). So, is it arrogance? What? NC knows better than any person alive the ability of the media to marginalize dissenting voices. As for the Khmer Rouge, I am agnostic at the moment.
SergioL652 at aol.com wrote: In a message dated 6/18/2002 6:45:22 AM Pacific Daylight Time, delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU writes:
Can you give me an alternative interpretation of Chomsky's final paragraph--why in God's name he wrote it?
Brad DeLong
What for? Seems you have made up your mind. The bottom line of this discussion is, to paraphrase Doug, to discredit any of Chomsky's work by painting him as an Anti-Semite/Self hating Jew/ holocaust denier. It won't work for anybody who has read or listened to Chomsky.
Sergio
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