Member-only story
Noam Chomsky Triggers Everyone Again and Trends on Twitter
Forever war is the official position, and anyone not calling for carnage is a pariah
Chomsky is a giant. I don’t know if there are many intellectuals out there that can pick up his dry-cleaning. Going on ninety-four years of age, his continued eloquence is unbelievable, and it’s wild to hear him speak about reading the papers during the Spanish Civil War, WWII, or the dropping of the nuclear bombs.
He’s famous for exposing the lack of moral consistency in the ‘freedom-loving West,’ our ‘worthy’ and ‘unworthy’ victims discourse, and the effectiveness of our propagandistic media.
He’s always been a hero of mine, but I do have healthy disagreement with him in areas, particularly some of his discourse around the pandemic restrictions.
He recently blew up Twitter. People were thrashing out ten-tweet threads saying he’s calling for Ukraine’s surrender and accusing him of genocide denial. As always is the case when he trends on social media, a snippet of an interview was pulled and largely misconstrued.
So, what did he say that so offended nice keyboard-warrior Twitter liberals?
He quoted a respected former ambassador and gave a dose of reality on the situation in…
