This repulsive dimwit Pugliese has hijacked this group. I recommend that serious progressives join znet and read what Chomsky actually has to say. Pugliese's malicious diatribe cannot be taken as representing Chomsky's arguments accurately. Just as Christopher Hitchens', Pugliese's rants reveal a perverse and malignant form of racist contempt for third world people. His debate over exactly how much Sudanese medicine (and lives)were destroyed are like the contentions of holocaust deny-ers.
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 10:45:01
 John Woodford wrote:
>You've got that right, Frank!
>What will they do next? Post Jane Fonda's latest Self Criticism to club
>Chomsky with?
>
>frank scott wrote:
>
>> There seems to be a concerted effort to get-nail chomsky, and much of it
>> comes from lefties and pseudo lefties, more liberal than left, who seem
>> to just hate the guy...this academic thing is much too long for me to
>> bother with, especially after picking up the tone, and the ridiculous
>> citing of Joan Baez...JOAN BAEZ?...and her full page ad in the NYtimes
>> about (gasp-horror) political prisoners in Viet Nam...wow!
>>
>> as I recall, her expose was based on a prisoner who smuggled "secret
>> information" out of the nam slammer...how? he stuck it up his butt!
>> double wow!
>>
>> for the benefit of people who live in the clouds, I suppose it is an
>> expose to find out that some leftist foreign movements were not composed
>> of collegial debate teams from affluent western families who majored in
>> philosophy and inactivity...for me, this is tired bullshit inspired by
>> people who should have better things to do than relive -in part
>> according to fantasy and bias - past history in order to "get" someone
>> they can't stand because he is...smarter than they are? what the hell is
>> going on? this is the most important stuff to deal with at this time??
>>
>> fs
>


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