r/chomsky • u/-_-_-_-otalp-_-_-_- Space Anarchism • May 25 '17

Share your emails with Chomsky here

Have you ever sent e-mails to Chomsky? If you have, you can share it in this thread for the rest of us, but only if you have his permission. Don't post the transcript if you don't, because he doesn't approve of it.

If you don't have permission, you can post your question to him and the gist of his reply, along with any books or articles he might have recommended.

The previous question thread can be found here and here. Please search there before asking him any questions directly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '17

please close this thread it's a violation of privacy and Chomsky has said he doesn't want his emails available to the public.

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u/-_-_-_-otalp-_-_-_- Space Anarchism Jun 11 '17

After some thought I have removed this thread. I was considering whether to alter it in some form (i.e not the exact reproduction of personal correspondence but his position on issues not publicly available or books/studies he recommended when someone asked) But since a lot of people want the thread to be removed, I've done it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '17

As /u/Bells-On-Sunday mentioned, it is still in the sidebar. (9 days later)

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u/-_-_-_-otalp-_-_-_- Space Anarchism Jun 28 '17 edited Jul 01 '17

Well, some people contacted me asking me asking to put it back. I talked with another user and suggested that a compromise would be to put it in the sidebar and allow only those emails for which Chomsky has given permission. I've edited the post to reflect this; If he allowed the emails to be posted, there should be no objection of course. If he didn't, or it was a mail long back, users could still mention books or papers recommended by him instead of the actual email text.