Reply #6: Th attack on Chomsky as a holocaust "denier" is crap [View All]

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It's been made before. Chomsky was defending another person's right to make the argument, not the argument itself. It's called the first amendment and though sometimes people will write abhorrent things, they have the right to do so. It's the same reason DU and Free Republic aren't shut down. Neither of them is politically expedient. (And that is where the similarity ends!). As for 9/11, I've done extensive reading on Noam Chomsky's views on 9/11 and he certainly doesn't take the tack that this was a good thing or anything like that, on the contrary he frequently uses the word abhorrent to describe the attacks. He does however, look deeper into the reasoning behind them and examines ways in which to prevent teh type of thinking that leads to these actions. Some of the things that lead up to terrorist action is poor foreign policy by our leaders. Anyone who denies this simply refuses to believe that the United States could ever act poorly or misunderstand other cultures.