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Chomsky is a pretty hardline radical liberal, so it's fairly likely that an HN reader or two thinks what he writes is pure and utter garbage.
by nihilocrat 18y ago
Chomsky is a pretty hardline radical liberal, so it's fairly likely that an HN reader or two thinks what he writes is pure and utter garbage.
- tptacek 18y agoHow do you at one point in a thread discuss how "liberal" is an ad hominem, and in another part of the thread dismiss someone as a "hardline radical liberal"?
- nihilocrat 18y agoBecause I'm not using "liberal" as an insult. I can't tell where you see an ad hominem, I'm "dismissing" Chomsky because he has a long track record plus popular image of being a radical liberal, which was the focus of my reply. I think you are assigning too much tone to a text-based discussion. The use of "liberal" in the other thread was referring to "classical liberal". I was mainly trying to point out how the definitions that are popularly used these days should be preferred over definitions of "liberal" that might have been accurate two hundred years ago when the original "classical liberals" were contemporary.
- alecco 18y agoThat's OK. But why do you down-vote what you don't agree with?
- nihilocrat 18y agoHow do you know I down-voted anything? I actually haven't down-voted anything attached to this story. I will downvote something I don't agree with if I think it's not well-reasoned, or too knee-jerky, or otherwise just dilutes the discussion.
- alecco 18y agoBecause I got something like -4 just after your horrible ad-hominem comment.
- MaysonL 18y agoChomsky may be a bit of a nutcase (which is how I interpret your tag of hardline radical liberal) but his analysis of the Bush administration's propaganda seems spot-on, in the linked article.