Yeah his Chapo episode during BLM was heinous, probably an all time low for the podcast. A bunch of rich, white guys sitting around talking about how cops aren’t all that bad during the height of the protests :cringe:
Oh fuuuuck I forgot about that episode. I never listened to it. Wasn't Taibbi also on there after a bunch of journos and professors signed that letter about cancel culture too lol?
Chomsky has always been a free speech absolutist, to the extent that he even once went to europe to support an author that was being tried for holocaust denial.
Yeah, I think he mentioned it two or three times somewhere I was listening to. He is not a leftist. to normie/whitey people cops are something you call to when there are troubles, not the trouble themselves, and he is one of them.
Plus he doesn’t like absolute statements (just his quirk), if you tell him the sun always shines, he will ask you about nighttime.
Maybe I'll go through his old articles (and substack stuff?) about BLM. I'm curious what he said. I used to respect him back in 2009-10 when I read some of his stuff about the 2008 near second great depression. He was one of the rare journalists who did his homework, had a cynical eye, did actual journalism, and explained what happened very well.
But that those articles are now more than a decade old. The more I learn about him - the more I dislike him. His takes on anything other than banksters and Wall Street seem to be very crappy.
Really?
Yeah his Chapo episode during BLM was heinous, probably an all time low for the podcast. A bunch of rich, white guys sitting around talking about how cops aren’t all that bad during the height of the protests :cringe:
Worst episode by far, nothing comes close to it
It makes the tour in Germany episode the peak of comedy
Lmaooo what episode number is that I wanna do a hate listen
435
https://reddit.com/r/BlackWolfFeed/comments/hoh1ts/435_cancel_crisis_feat_matt_taibbi_7920/
Oh fuuuuck I forgot about that episode. I never listened to it. Wasn't Taibbi also on there after a bunch of journos and professors signed that letter about cancel culture too lol?
Chomsky and Glenn Greenwald signed it too lol. I feel like Chomsky can’t be held responsible for anything he says or does anymore he’s too senile
Chomsky has always been a free speech absolutist, to the extent that he even once went to europe to support an author that was being tried for holocaust denial.
I remember that one because I swear someone said cops count as working class too.
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Amber.
Yeah, I think he mentioned it two or three times somewhere I was listening to. He is not a leftist. to normie/whitey people cops are something you call to when there are troubles, not the trouble themselves, and he is one of them.
Plus he doesn’t like absolute statements (just his quirk), if you tell him the sun always shines, he will ask you about nighttime.
Maybe I'll go through his old articles (and substack stuff?) about BLM. I'm curious what he said. I used to respect him back in 2009-10 when I read some of his stuff about the 2008 near second great depression. He was one of the rare journalists who did his homework, had a cynical eye, did actual journalism, and explained what happened very well.
But that those articles are now more than a decade old. The more I learn about him - the more I dislike him. His takes on anything other than banksters and Wall Street seem to be very crappy.
https://reddit.com/r/BlackWolfFeed/comments/hoh1ts/435_cancel_crisis_feat_matt_taibbi_7920/
“To jump straight from, you know seeing an episode like the George Floyd killing to ‘all cops are white supremacist murderers’, that’s unsupportable”
“Lots of non-white people are cops”
“Being a cop is a working class job”
On an episode during July 2020, while he was also there to bitch about cancel culture
Yikes.
Still shining on something