----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 8:18 AM Subject: Re: Walzer on the Left
> [Your memory is unreliable,
http://www.zmag.org/chomskycampbell.htm
I can also let the man speak for himself. He alludes to an intended "silent genocide."
> on Chomsky as well as Walzer. But
> conventional liberals, like the BBC interviewer in the conversation below,
> often prefer to forget what Chomsky actually says in favor of their
> caricature of his views.
When one talks out of both sides of her mouth, she can easily claim that intellecutal adversaries are caricaturing her nuanced views.
BTW, when you bungle an empirical question, it doesn't seem to be proper recourse to protest that you were just quoting the mistakes made by authorities.
-- Luke
--CGE]