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> You can add Noam Chomsky That's because Chomsky is a genocide denialist, he especially and famously called victims of the Khmer Rouge liars.

by ch4s3 5mo ago

culi 5mo ago
Chomsky's had his fair of controversial takes but he never called any victim a liar
- ch4s3 5mo ago
  Lucky you, since I know you love links, here’s the rat-bag’s own site[1]. > Specifically, refugees questioned by Westerners or Thais have a vested interest in reporting atrocities on the part of Cambodian revolutionaries, an obvious fact that no serious reporter will fail to take into account. There are several other quotes where he implies refugees are lying. And if you’re good at digging through library archives there’s a recording of him saying it more directly in an interview some time around 1977. Chomsky’s a huge piece of shit and carried water for the Khmer Rouge. [1] https://chomsky.info/19770625/ https://chomsky.info/19770625/
  - culi 5mo ago
    the sentence immediately preceding: > While these reports must be considered seriously, care and caution are necessary. Thanks for proving my point.
    - ch4s3 5mo ago
      This is throat clearing. He very specifically says the refugees are telling the Thai and US interviewers what they want to hear (e.g. lying). He says elsewhere in the article that reports of local party leaders executing people displaced from cities are unfounded. He bends over backwards in several places to discount refugee accounts. > While these reports must be considered seriously, care and caution are necessary. I'd also point out that when the killing fields were discovered, he refused to acknowledge that the early reports from refugees were correct. So he never took them seriously. Why carry water for this piece of shit? He also denied that Serbs were carrying out massacres in the Balkans. His whole thing has always been covering for the crimes of any anti-Western scumbag.

> You can add Noam Chomsky That's because Chomsky is a genocide denialist, he especially and famously called victims of the Khmer Rouge liars.

by ch4s3 5mo ago

> You can add Noam Chomsky That's because Chomsky is a genocide denialist, he especially and famously called victims of the Khmer Rouge liars.

culi 5mo ago

Chomsky's had his fair of controversial takes but he never called any victim a liar

ch4s3 5mo ago
Lucky you, since I know you love links, here’s the rat-bag’s own site[1]. > Specifically, refugees questioned by Westerners or Thais have a vested interest in reporting atrocities on the part of Cambodian revolutionaries, an obvious fact that no serious reporter will fail to take into account. There are several other quotes where he implies refugees are lying. And if you’re good at digging through library archives there’s a recording of him saying it more directly in an interview some time around 1977. Chomsky’s a huge piece of shit and carried water for the Khmer Rouge. [1] https://chomsky.info/19770625/ https://chomsky.info/19770625/
- culi 5mo ago
  the sentence immediately preceding: > While these reports must be considered seriously, care and caution are necessary. Thanks for proving my point.
  - ch4s3 5mo ago
    This is throat clearing. He very specifically says the refugees are telling the Thai and US interviewers what they want to hear (e.g. lying). He says elsewhere in the article that reports of local party leaders executing people displaced from cities are unfounded. He bends over backwards in several places to discount refugee accounts. > While these reports must be considered seriously, care and caution are necessary. I'd also point out that when the killing fields were discovered, he refused to acknowledge that the early reports from refugees were correct. So he never took them seriously. Why carry water for this piece of shit? He also denied that Serbs were carrying out massacres in the Balkans. His whole thing has always been covering for the crimes of any anti-Western scumbag.