But then I see that he was speaking at the Rebellious Media Conference, and not to the UK Uncut audience, so crafting his message to particular audiences. /When they're radicals, he says that the OWS movement is naive, but when asked about it a few days before that, he appeared to endorse OWS.
I'm not sure I understand this strategy. Won't it backfire if OWS people find out he's denouncing them?
> http://ianbone.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/chomsky-sticks-boot-in-to-occupy-wall-street/
>
> Been at the Rebellious Media conference all weekend – more of which
> later. I caught the second half of Chomsky’s speech saturday morning –
> anout 1200 people there. I was impressed. Chomsky took no prisoners.
> He described the Occupy wall streeters as ‘ naive people who have no
> comprehension of the real world’. He then went on to look at the
> demands of the occupiers in both New York and Boston -and illustrate
> how they could easily be accomodated by the existing banking system.
> There was a class war going on said Chomsky repeatedly but only one
> side was currentlt waging it and it wasn’t us!! For the wall
> streeters read UK Uncut here who have similarly lame financial demands
> which are similarly easily accomodated. Theres an argument to be made
> that ‘anything is better than nothing’ but like Chomsky i dont think
> it is. ‘People will live an intense period of activism for months’said
> chomsky ‘then vanish from poltical activity forever because of the
> nature of their demands which pose no threat to the system’
>
>
> [The old fart smelled this through his important breather holes
> Cleverly he dialed from within
>>From the outside we observed
> That the nose of the wooden mask
> Where the holes had just been a moment ago
> Was now smooth amazingly blended camouflaged in
> With the very intricate rainbow trout replica]
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