Yeah, he could so easily have stopped at " the death counts being thrown around all come from the state dept (or embassy in an unofficial capacity iirc) and yet academic are citing it as fact. The toll was correct, but not at the time the claim was made, and that speaks to a genuine problem of just letting western "sources' say a thing, sometimes not even something planned out by the CIA or anything, and just run with it.
But nope he had to go farther than that, double down, and handle it all in the worst manner he could
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#Chomsky_and_Herman
Is it possible Chomsky is just contrarian
slowly discarding the concept of "heroes" because no one is right all the time
I would settle with Chomsky being right at least like 70% of the time regarding past socialist projects or marxism
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name one and I'll tell you what a dipshit they were
what about this guy :sankara-salute:
Died too early
damn, I simply wouldn't have done that
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Except for me I'm always right. I can be your hero, comrade.
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God dammit. WTF Noam.
When you're technically right in all the wrong ways.
(Speaking of his claims that anti-communist propaganda tends to obfuscate the effects of US imperialism on death rates in revolutionary countries)
Sucks that he only extended that reasoning to the wrong one and not the right ones.
Yeah, he could so easily have stopped at " the death counts being thrown around all come from the state dept (or embassy in an unofficial capacity iirc) and yet academic are citing it as fact. The toll was correct, but not at the time the claim was made, and that speaks to a genuine problem of just letting western "sources' say a thing, sometimes not even something planned out by the CIA or anything, and just run with it.
But nope he had to go farther than that, double down, and handle it all in the worst manner he could
Lmao great meme