3 ms·
As a Portland resident, I haven’t seen anything evidence against that.
by horns4lyfe 4y ago
As a Portland resident, I haven’t seen anything evidence against that.
- mejutoco 4y agoNoam Chomsky identifies as an anarchist, and he is not violent and blows things up, so evidence exists that it is possible.
- yakshaving_jgt 4y agoChomsky seems to be pretty cool with the appeasement of a genocidal terrorist regime though. He’s not one of the good guys. https://www.e-flux.com/notes/470005/open-letter-to-noam-chomsky-and-other-like-minded-intellectuals-on-the-russia-ukraine-war https://www.e-flux.com/notes/470005/open-letter-to-noam-chom...
- fancybouncy 4y agowho decides who the good guys are? if you get a good anthropology book, you'll find plenty of societies that value violence (to varying degrees). in fact, you don't even need an anthropology book, just open the old testament.
- tdeck 4y agoApparently a blog post by 3 economists and a professor of finance decides.
- CamperBob2 4y agowho decides who the good guys are? Simple. Look at the guards at the border. Are they employed because people keep trying to sneak into the country, or out of it?
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- astrange 4y agoThey probably don't include Pol Pot, who Chomsky defended on the usual anti-imperialist basis that anything American is bad and anything not American is good.
- yakshaving_jgt 4y agoIt’s hard not to invoke Godwin’s Law at this point. To me it seems self evident and non-controversial to all but the sneeriest of intellectuals, that some people are just bad.
- mejutoco 4y agoThanks, that was an interesting letter. I was unaware of it. In any case, there are things to learn from Chomsky, without agreeing on everything with him.