Alterman on Chomsky

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Tue Jun 18 14:44:29 PDT 2002



>
> From the UK fascist friends of Oswald Mosley.
>http://www.oswaldmosley.com/people/chomsky.html
> >... a response to a claim that Faurisson is anti-Semitic by dint of his
>questioning of the Holocaust, Chomsky said, "I see no anti-Semitic
>implications
>in denial of the existence of gas chambers or even denial of the Holocaust.
>Nor
>would there be anti-Semitic implications, per se, in the claim that the
>Holocaust (whether one believes it took place or not) is being exploited,
>viciously so, by apologists for Israeli repression and violence. I see no
>hint
>of anti- Semitic implications in Faurisson's work").


>From a strictly logical point of view, this is correct. It is something a
failing of Chomsky's syle of analysis and pesronal temperment that he insists on strict logic at the expense of context and nuance. Of course "There was no Holocaust" doe not imply, "The Jews are wicked," but only people who believe the latter say the former.

jks

jks

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