I don't often say this, but good for Noam Chomsky, then. Free speech needs all the defenders it can get these days!
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Astonishingly confused replies to this tweet. Chomsky is not defending colonialism; he is defending the right to express the argument.
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Again bad take...Chomsky is worried about the Journal imploding because of mistakenly publishing a bad article. No hero here.
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I didn’t call him a hero. He didn’t want it retracted.
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"implied"....get over yourself.
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You are so deeply confused. Best wishes and muted.
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Dismissive, smug, Puritan...must be an academic-----or Physician. Good.
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I'm simply amazed at how authoritarian U.S. society has become. People calling for a withdrawal of the author's PhD, etc. Terrible! 1/2
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Would Chomsky defend Hilter's pre-war speeches knowing what came next? What if free speech has a subtext, which engenders a process that end up subjugating another set of humans in future. Word have impact like actions. So, why not defend free actions? Guns? Violence?
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With words and actions, freedom to do and say is only justified if there are no externalities. If there are externalities, then the person who materially suffers should have a say.
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So you support having authoritarian controls that get to decide what speech puts forth acceptable ideas? That can't possibly go wrong
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Why is it so hard for some people to separate defending the author's right to publish from agreeing with his argument?
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I don't understand whether prof Pinker is being sarcastic or not. Colonialism is bad. I think that Chomsky opposes any form of it.
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The point of the comment is regarding free speech.
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Meaning no sarcasm. Ok.
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Meaning he supports the defending academic publications from censorship even when he disagrees with the opinion given
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Chomsky is a brilliant and intellectually honest communist. Which is why he'd be among the first executed after a communist takeover.
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Disagree! Write a rebuttal! Protest if you want! Seeking for someone to be punished because they have different opinions? Reprehensible! 2/2
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