Lol, "right wing critics" is when you expect someone who works in a social science to actually do the leggings of actually doing fieldwork instead of, as Chomsky himself admits about his thesis, skipping over actually collecting data on Hebrew as it is actually spoken since "he already knew the language", and even then, admits he isn't all that good with Modern Hebrew.
No, I actually read what Noam has to say about his own fucking work himself. I'm never heard of Tom Wolfe's book.
When I got to college, I had to do an undergraduate thesis. I was in linguistics then, so I figured, “OK, I’ll write about Hebrew. It’s kind of interesting.” I started the way I was taught to: You get an informant, and you do field work and take a corpus. So I started working with an informant, and I realized after a couple of weeks, this is totally idiotic. I know the answers to all the questions. And the only thing I don’t know is the phonetics, but I don’t care about that. So I just dropped the informant and started doing it myself.
https://chomsky.info/20101112/
Lol, imagine me going to Japan as an anthropologist, say, "fuck this fieldwork bullshit, I know everything about Japan from being a Weabo" and then write a thesis on Japanese culture based solely on my consumption of Japanese mass media.
Lol, "right wing critics" is when you expect someone who works in a social science to actually do the leggings of actually doing fieldwork instead of, as Chomsky himself admits about his thesis, skipping over actually collecting data on Hebrew as it is actually spoken since "he already knew the language", and even then, admits he isn't all that good with Modern Hebrew.
The only people who try to attack his professional work in discussions of his political writings are on the right. It's a basic ad hom.
What is this field work you keep talking about? Oh god no, did you read that Tom Wolfe book?
No, I actually read what Noam has to say about his own fucking work himself. I'm never heard of Tom Wolfe's book.
Lol, imagine me going to Japan as an anthropologist, say, "fuck this fieldwork bullshit, I know everything about Japan from being a Weabo" and then write a thesis on Japanese culture based solely on my consumption of Japanese mass media.
Its based on speaking the language. Thats not being a weabo.