I apologize for being a hipster, but I find it baffling how people treat the recent releases as shocking except how he openly disparaged MeToo (which was a bit surprising to me and certainly awful). He already was asked about Epstein and said "It's none of your business," among other ridiculous things. It was already obvious even looking only at the Epstein stuff which side he was on (to say nothing of his being a shitbag for over 50 years even without the Epstein stuff).

[–] CommCat@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What's more surprising was how chummy he was with people he supposedly opposed to the core, like Bannon. Vijay Prishard, in his article on Counterpunch, once even asked Chomsky if he would ever meet with Kissinger, and Chomsky told him "No", but he has no problem with meeting War Criminal Ehud Barak. Just shows Chomsky's ideas were never really a threat to the ruling elites, he opposes direct action, and every election cycle he tells his fans to vote Dems.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It kinda shouldn't be baffling though.

We don't know these people personally, most of us don't obsessively follow the statements made by these people, and out only mental touchpoint is a reference to a narrow body of their work from the entirety of their lifetime.

Outside of "Manufacturing Consent" and some "free speech" documentaries that had clips of a speech or talk, it takes people harping on these "revelations" to either keep reminding us filthy casuals that some of our potential faves (Chomsky) ... shouldn't.

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Agreed. How did I get betrayed? Dude co wrote a book that I have sitting on my bookshelf.