Chomsky praises Snowden and condemns US hypocrisy

Chomsky takes the anti-American, or anti-government side of any and all debates and writes whiny essays full of sarcastic jabs that preach to a choir of the faithful. He makes no attempt to consider the side of government(or whoever he as casting as the villain at the moment of his self righteous spiel). It's as much of a tragedy to take him seriously as it is to take radical right think tank garbage seriously.

Re: Chomsky praises Snowden and condemns US hypocrisy

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Post by graeme » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 5:35 PM UTC

soup10 wrote: post #4

Chomsky takes the anti-American, or anti-government side of any and all debates and writes whiny essays full of sarcastic jabs that preach to a choir of the faithful. He makes no attempt to consider the side of government(or whoever he as casting as the villain at the moment of his self righteous spiel). It's as much of a tragedy to take him seriously as it is to take radical right think tank garbage seriously.

Without an example of specific instances where Chomsky does this, and reasons why he was wrong, this is pure ad hominem.

Re: Chomsky praises Snowden and condemns US hypocrisy

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Post by pstuart » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 5:37 PM UTC

soup10 wrote: post #4

Chomsky takes the anti-American, or anti-government side of any and all debates and writes whiny essays full of sarcastic jabs that preach to a choir of the faithful. He makes no attempt to consider the side of government(or whoever he as casting as the villain at the moment of his self righteous spiel). It's as much of a tragedy to take him seriously as it is to take radical right think tank garbage seriously.

Small correction: "anti-American" should be "anti-American Imperialist" and "anti-government" should be "anti-oppressive government".

Re: Chomsky praises Snowden and condemns US hypocrisy

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Post by northwest » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 5:37 PM UTC

pvdm wrote: post #3

"Prism is an attack on American citizens" -Chomsky

It's actually pretty strange that even he limits the damage to the US only. Whereas it's clearly worldwide damage.

EDIT: I suppose he phrased it this way so that we listen more closely (or listen at all).

Re: Chomsky praises Snowden and condemns US hypocrisy

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Post by loopdoend » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 5:40 PM UTC

soup10 wrote: post #4

Chomsky takes the anti-American, or anti-government side of any and all debates and writes whiny essays full of sarcastic jabs that preach to a choir of the faithful. He makes no attempt to consider the side of government(or whoever he as casting as the villain at the moment of his self righteous spiel). It's as much of a tragedy to take him seriously as it is to take radical right think tank garbage seriously.

Pointing out hypocrisy of the government isn't anti-American.

Re: Chomsky praises Snowden and condemns US hypocrisy

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Post by Todd » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 5:42 PM UTC

Link to associated video:

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/07/chomsky-says-snowden-should-be...

The quoted segment starts at 1:21:25

Re: Chomsky praises Snowden and condemns US hypocrisy

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Post by rdtsc » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 5:48 PM UTC

soup10 wrote: post #4

Chomsky takes the anti-American, or anti-government side of any and all debates and writes whiny essays full of sarcastic jabs that preach to a choir of the faithful. He makes no attempt to consider the side of government(or whoever he as casting as the villain at the moment of his self righteous spiel). It's as much of a tragedy to take him seriously as it is to take radical right think tank garbage seriously.

Soup10 takes the anti Chomskian side and writes whiny comments full of ad-hominem attacks. He makes no attempt to consider Chomsky's side.

But I still have hope and I am sure soup10 unlike Chomsky of course has a long list of documented bullet points that explain government's side.