Chomsky didn't support Pol Pot, he criticized extremely hypocritical and misleading media coverage of the mass killings carried out by Khmer Rouge. Chiefly IIRC that they were decrying mass killings during the period when they were not taking place, and then went silent during the period they were due to Kampuchea becoming an ally of convenience.
Yeah, not really my area but I remember reading about that a while back.
Didn't it basically boil down to the fact that Pol Pot actually did commit something like the hysterical bullshit accusations the US has accused every left wing govt ever of doing, and basically at the time Chomsky called bullshit on it but it turned out that yeah Pol Pot was doing some really evil shit?
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Polpot was funded by the Cia though so Chomsky is at least consistent as controlled opposition
Chomsky didn't support Pol Pot, he criticized extremely hypocritical and misleading media coverage of the mass killings carried out by Khmer Rouge. Chiefly IIRC that they were decrying mass killings during the period when they were not taking place, and then went silent during the period they were due to Kampuchea becoming an ally of convenience.
I want young Chomsky back.
I believe it was also about how western media basically ignored the atrocities carried out by Indonesia in East Timor during the same time period?
Yeah, not really my area but I remember reading about that a while back.
Didn't it basically boil down to the fact that Pol Pot actually did commit something like the hysterical bullshit accusations the US has accused every left wing govt ever of doing, and basically at the time Chomsky called bullshit on it but it turned out that yeah Pol Pot was doing some really evil shit?
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