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Re:U.S. Stood by as Indonesia Killed a Half-Million People, ... by lr4444lr on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @02:48PM (#15501826)
Don't delude yourself about Chomsky's objectivity. As late as 1969 in debate with William F. Buckley he refused to believe that the Chinese Communists were killing people with failed economic policies and authoritarian crackdowns.[0]

[0] https://youtu.be/vaR-T_hqRSM?t=2793

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Re:U.S. Stood by as Indonesia Killed a Half-Million People, ... by icebraining on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @03:52PM (#15502349)
That doesn't make him wrong about the criticisms he does make.
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Re:U.S. Stood by as Indonesia Killed a Half-Million People, ... by lr4444lr on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @04:13PM (#15502531)
Right. It calls into question his intellectual honesty and the morality of his intellectual preoccupations. Not to mention the pension he pulls from the MIT endowment which is heavily invested in the military industrial complex he supposedly despises, but not to my knowledge has ever used his clout among the MIT faculty to protest in formal petition.

Must be a nice life.

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