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Noam Chomsky Attacked Genocide Survivors, And Yet His Academic Career Only Grew
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Noam Chomsky Is One of the Most Cited Intellectuals Alive.

His linguistics work at MIT changed how we understand language. It made him a celebrity in academia and gave him a platform far beyond his field. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia and killed roughly 25% of the population. Chomsky decided, so, to use that platform not to defend the victims, but to cast doubt on their testimony.

He Called Genocide Reports “Propaganda.”

In 1977, Chomsky and Edward Herman published “Distortions at Fourth Hand” in The Nation. They argued Western media was exaggerating the killings to justify past U.S. intervention. Chomsky wrote that refugee testimony should be treated with “great care” because refugees are “subject to pressure.” He dismissed François Ponchaud, a French priest who documented the genocide in Cambodia: Year Zero, as “unreliable” and called his figures “inflated.”

Noam Chomsky is a communist and pro-genocide apologist. He is evil.  :censored: :mad:
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