@sapinker Harris had no business initiating this conversation. Chomsky quite rightly put him in his place.
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@NicholasC_79@sapinker Why? A free exchange of ideas is the basis of our society. Chomsky was hostile from the very beginning.
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@sapinker It's like trying to out paint El Greco...you may be very good, but will wind up seriously outclassed -
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@DougMerritt Agreed. Chomsky came across as a pompous jackass.@SrMayo1@sapinker
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@sapinker Chomsky clearly not in the mood for discussion, unnecessarily prickly, but Harris did sound terribly naive on US foreign policy. -
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@sapinker@SamHarrisOrg Chomsky sounds really, really pompous here. I wouldn't have expected that, at least to this degree. -
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@aeon456@sapinker@SamHarrisOrg He wasn't defending anything here. He was crotchety and irascible from the outset. -
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@aeon456@sapinker@SamHarrisOrg it was the tone that annoyed me. He's used to being treated as omniscient by clueless humanities undergrads
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@sapinker Chomsky is an example of "Humanities as an extension of Literary Criticism masquerading as Science" we've begun to move away from.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker I was shocked how immediately hostile Chomsky was. Doesn't reflect well on him.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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It is curious. As far as I can see
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@fustbariclation except he never says or implied that the USA is saintly. Simply that there are moral differences with, say, the Taliban. -
Exactly. What 'moral differences' The Taliban are dead-ringers for Saudis and the US supports them.
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@fustbariclation Who would you rather have the power of the US government, the Taliban, or the US government? -
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Most definately neither! Both arereally bad news.
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I'm easy, anywhere civilised.
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