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“His intellectual stature has been compared to that of Galileo, Newton and Descartes” Do I have to point out how obscene this is?
by leephillips 5y ago
“His intellectual stature has been compared to that of Galileo, Newton and Descartes”
Do I have to point out how obscene this is?
- didgeoridoo 5y agoI think “right-ish about a few big things early in his career, then became increasingly bizarre and unhinged” could broadly describe all those characters.
- richliss 5y agoDid any of them outright deny what a genocidal dictator was doing like Chomsky did with Pol Pot?
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y agoIt's cringeworthy, it discredits the interviewer and does a disservice to the interviewee who was probably not aware of the exaggeration.