May 11, 2003
Chomsky
Keith Windschuttle does a wonderful job of defining the hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky in the current New Criterion.
Chomsky has declared himself a libertarian and anarchist but has defended some of the most authoritarian and murderous regimes in human history. His political philosophy is purportedly based on empowering the oppressed and toiling masses but he has contempt for ordinary people who he regards as ignorant dupes of the privileged and the powerful. He has defined the responsibility of the intellectual as the pursuit of truth and the exposure of lies, but has supported the regimes he admires by suppressing the truth and perpetrating falsehoods. He has endorsed universal moral principles but has only applied them to Western liberal democracies, while continuing to rationalize the crimes of his own political favorites. He is a mandarin who denounces mandarins. When caught out making culpably irresponsible misjudgments, as he was over Cambodia and Sudan, he has never admitted he was wrong.
RTWT.
Posted by Chris Short at May 11, 2003 06:16 PM
1 Comments
Alex Knapp
May 12, 2003 2:22 PM
He's also a Holocaust denier.