“Anything critical of the Amerikkkan empire” and the person in question has denied the Cambodian and Bosnian genocide 😭

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[u/foxfire981]

Friend of Epstein and supporter of the failed Venezuela government. He'll ignore all evidence because "he has all the trust me bro contacts."

[u/NeuroticKnight]

He should fight Logan Paul.

[u/GoldenStitch2 → u/NeuroticKnight]

I’d genuinely pay a thousand dollars to see this in person

[u/Smorgas-board]

“Good for America? BAD! Bad for America? GOOD!”—-the works of Chomsky summarized. And yet people really put him on a pedestal

[u/FredDurstDestroyer]

I will genuinely celebrate when the devil finally drags him down to where he belongs

[u/GoldenStitch2 → u/FredDurstDestroyer]

Me too. Someone in the comments said “Am I the only one who is going to celebrate when he dies?” and an Eastern European, two Arabs, and an American all said they would as well lol.

[u/lochlainn → u/FredDurstDestroyer]

He can room with Kissinger.

[u/lukeskylicker1 → u/lochlainn]

Now that's a sitcom I'd watch.

[u/TantricEmu → u/FredDurstDestroyer]

That day is coming sooner than later!

[u/FredDurstDestroyer → u/TantricEmu]

Let’s hope so!

[u/Peachy_Biscuits → u/FredDurstDestroyer]

The devil won't take him for two reasons, first, he does far more damage alive, second, he'll be too annoying down there

[u/theEWDSDS → u/FredDurstDestroyer]

Could I join you?

[u/BleepLord]

Noam Chomsky was once asked what he thought of the concept of “anti-americanism” and he immediately said it wasn’t real and then compared America to the USSR and Nazi Germany, because apparently all foreign counterparts to anti-americanism have existed only in military or totalitarian dictatorships.

The mere fact that anti-americanism exists as a concept indicates that the American people have “deeply rooted totalitarian instincts” and associate all criticism of American state policy with criticism of the American people, culture and society itself. Apparently, there is no criticism directly of the American people, culture, or society, it is all about state policy alone.

[u/lowchain3072 → u/BleepLord]

Turn it around and Americans criticize anything else and the others defend, that's freedom. /s

[u/NoREEEEEEtilBrooklyn]

Oh, one of my favorite people to talk about. Noam Chomsky. My great grandparents were friends with his parents. He hated his parents who were immigrants and American-exceptionalists. Basically, he is your classic genius academic who is completely out of touch with reality because he has only ever worked in academia, only spends time around academia (including his parents, who were academics). He has no frame of reference on reality because he was never forced to grapple with it.

[u/mramisuzuki → u/NoREEEEEEtilBrooklyn]

He’s also the classic millionaire Communist.

[u/oahu8846 → u/mramisuzuki]

just like Hasan "Twitch streaming is harder than a 9/5" Piker

[u/jackaltakeswhiskey → u/NoREEEEEEtilBrooklyn]

Basically, he is your classic genius academic who is completely out of touch with reality because he has only ever worked in academia, only spends time around academia (including his parents, who were academics).

Yet more evidence that the stereotype of the upper-class out-of-touch academic is, to the distress and denial of many academics, firmly rooted in reality.

[u/Adam7390 → u/NoREEEEEEtilBrooklyn]

Genius academic

Universal grammar is a debunked outdated pseudoscientific theory.

[u/bnipples → u/NoREEEEEEtilBrooklyn]

'genius' is a little much he's a mediocre academic who promotes his (now debunked) theories through political maneuvering and blackballing of dissenting linguists. It would be a net benefit to human knowledge in general and linguistics in particular if all copies of his written works were burned.

[u/ur_sexy_body_double]

Oh good lord. Fight disinformation and become a denier of the mass murder at Srebrenica for the simple fact that the US was on the opposite side in that war

[u/WAHpoleon_BoWAHparte]

Learning how to fight disinformation with Noam Chomsky is like learning how to respect women with the Taliban.

[u/Mean_Ice_2663 → u/[deleted]]

He's literally spreading the NATO sob story and openly defended the Khmer Rouge...

[u/mramisuzuki → u/[deleted]]

Norm Chomsky is a linguist and not a political historian?

Of course he’s really good at cooking his takes.

[u/I_Am_U → u/[deleted]]

Disinformation 101 - Poison the well by introducing false claims that undermine the credibility of the human target.

Chomsky is an outspoken critic of authoritarian socialism, so claim he is a communist. Chomsky is an outspoken critic of genocide, so portray him as a denier of genocides.

He's literally addressed the false claim you're repeating, but few have time to fact check in their busy lives:

Chomsky, on use of the term 'genocide,' when describing events:

I just am reluctant to use the term. I don’t think it’s an appropriate one. So I don’t use it myself. But if people want to use it, fine. It’s like most of the other terms of political discourse. It has whatever meaning you decide to give it. So the question is basically unanswerable. It depends what your criteria are for calling something genocide.

Here's a research study conducted by an academic journal specializing in genocide studies, with peer review, debunking the slew of false accusations based around distorting Chomsky's statements.

https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol14/iss1/8/

The semantic trick here is to falsely conflate 1) a denial of the applicability of terminology with 2) the accusation of genocide denial.

To fight disinfo, you can repost this passage whenever you see this false claim :D

[u/lukeskylicker1 → u/I_Am_U]

Genocide minimization is genocide denial. Pure and simple. From claiming that Srebenicia wasn't genocide because 'only' the men were killed and the women and children were trucked out (so they could be raped instead), to trying to paint KLA gurellias as being worse (a half truth at best, KLA massacres primarily targeted Serbian police, while Serbian massacres almost exclusively targeted civilians), insidious wordplay by referring to Serbian massacres as "population exchange" while correctly referring to the massacres of other belligerents as ethnic cleansings, and even promoting a conspiracy theory on Serbian TV in criticism of the Kosovo bombing, that the bombings weren't because the bodies of Albanian's were being shipped back and buried in Serbia, which are still being uncovered to this day, in order to hide what was very clearly the start of another fucking genocide, but because the US government got a bit sad that poor underdog and benevolent Serbia wouldn't bow down to them.

Noam Chomsky considers anything short of the Holocaust in scale to not be a genocide (except, of course, the ones he does) and that kind of shit is the same twisted line of thinking as "Oh no the Armenian genocide wasn't a genocide because the term wasn't invented yet!"

You should be disgusted by yourself for defending this man.

[u/Objective-throwaway]

Remember kid. Genocide denial is cool as long as the America was opposed to it

[u/Solintari]

Chomsky “eh Pol Pot wasn’t THAT bad, come on guys, it’s not like he is like throws on blue blockers the American government”

What a fuck stick. I don’t know why people listen to this anti-west smegma factory.

[u/lochlainn → u/Solintari]

Selling stupid to stupid people is always a good grift, that's why.

[u/dwaynetheaakjohnson]

It’s not exactly support of it but he also contributed to the foreword of a book basically denying the Rwandan Genocide

[u/Disastrous-State-842]

I’m a former New Yorker. Just about everybody I knew through Noam was a god. They had his books, talked about him non stop etc. I was like the only one who hated everything he was about. Of course I was the stupid redneck.

[u/CrushingonClinton]

Noam Chomsky never met a genocide he couldn’t deny

[u/sErgEantaEgis]

That cuck just wants Ukraine to roll over to Russia and allow themselves to be raped and murdered and get a puppet dictator just because Putin made nuclear saber-rattling and he fell for the bait.

He's so far up his ass in "America BAD" that he'll default to giving Putin what he wants. What a scumbag.

[u/mramisuzuki → u/[deleted]]

Seriously we had some European Exceptionalist on this site bad faith arguing about how “he didn’t” gain anything from the European colonialism economy.

Had to explain to him that Belgium and France only relinquished their major Africa colonies in the 1960s and his parents were likely alive living off that economic system.

His response was he was not Belgian anymore.

[u/DDemetriG → u/mramisuzuki]

"Anymore" lol. What, is he "German"?

[u/LeResist]

Pardon my ignorance but Who is this Noam Chomsky guy? Can anyone explain his beliefs that people are saying he is disinformation?

[u/DanPowah → u/LeResist]

He's essentially a prophet for the far left who had done some excellent work in the field of linguistics, is unfortunate more well known for his garbage politics (he doesn't have a degree in history, just linguistics). He was a lead denialist of the Bosnian and Cambodian genocides and has an undeniable influence on the American left to the point where separating the two is impossible

[u/bnipples → u/DanPowah]

The linguistics work is pretty garbage as well as it turns out. Glad he lived long enough to see his life's work become irrelevant.

[u/Careless-Pin-2852]

There is an account called Ben Shaperio’s Biceps. Lolololololol!!!!

I always point out 63% of twitter accounts are bots then post the data. https://internet2-0.com/bots-on-x-com/

But that account is part of 37% that is human lol. Its too funny to be a bot. Only the original post was a bot lolz

[u/barrygrant27]

I don’t remember him denying the Cambodian genocide. In fact what I remember is him comparing this to the one in Indonesia in his Manufacturing Consent.