Slop.

Ok but a lot of them were liberals, do we forget that the liberals are not our allies because they participated in a good protest? And participating in protest is something many people still do in a self-serving way to advance their personal brand. Even Keir Starmer participated in many, building his brand as a "leftist wink wink" until fucking over literally everyone.

You can't look at Chomsky being chummy with these people and justify it with his left wing writing without acknowledging that he is using academic intellectual culture to professionally distance his emotions in order to be chummy and gain what he can from doing so for personal whatever. It's very obviously unprincipled behaviour that puts the intellectual ahead of the leftism as the first priority.

Less curious when it's the same person who is pictured with Steve Bannon, laughing and pleased

How long was his total time in custody? Even a day? And by this act of great sacrifice, we are to forgive him for decades spent in his ivory tower shitting on actual radicals and disparaging countless activists who risked and sacrificed much more in the fight against US imperialism, spending years in prison or even losing their lives?

Chomsky has been a piece of shit keeping up false pretenses for several decades and his legacy should be regarded with contempt.

Obligatory link to an essay on him that I like.

Yeah but people can change, sometimes for the worse