[lbo-talk] Noam Chomsky is losing it

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 28 09:54:56 PDT 2011


On Sep 28, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:


> Maybe so. I was trying to cast the net as narrowly as possible. But perhaps
> opposing ethnically-oppressed people's broad demands for justice is racism,
> regardless of who does it.
>
> And by "racism," I mean the consequential, structural sort. I haven't
> wrapped my head around Reed yet, but care very little about the inner life
> of Chomsky or anyone else.

Is there any American who has done more to fight Israeli violence and apartheid and U.S. support of it than Noam Chomsky? Really. Can you think of a single person? He's been at it for decades. He's spread the word to millions of people. Why denounce the man?

Doug



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