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> perhaps a tad uncomfortable for conformists I hope you're not implying that conformists being uncomfortable with an argument somehow lends a weight to the va

• tgragnato 7y ago
  No. Part of the work of a linguist is to try understand why people use one term rather than another, often this happens because a word is associated with a particular idea rather than another: a different speech may imply a different acceptation or a different nuance. These linguistic differences are obviously related to the set of beliefs, social habits, routines of the individual or set of people in analysis. I simply believe that it can be extremely unnerving to be criticised by a linguist like Chomsky, who in this step uses his skills to highlight the imbalances and logical internal inconsistencies (the wrongful usage of the word "populism") of the neoliberal political thought to favour his worldview (political activism). It's a critical point of view that's difficult to find in other figures, and one of the reasons why I follow his ideas, because whether you agree or not he offers another perspective.