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Re: CHAT: Chomsky (Was Re: ALERT: Chomsky Giving a Talk on Language Creation?)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 7, 2004, 7:52
Quoting David Peterson <ThatBlueCat@...>:

> Anarchist wrote: > > <<Isn't [Chomsky] also an anarchist? I'm an anarchist, so I've been > wondering > if he is both a linguist and an anarchist.>> > > I was surprised to learn that Chomsky did anything but linguistics, and when > I found out that he was some sort of politcal icon, I fully expected him to > be > as right wing as they get, based on his work as a linguist.
I have zero wish to discuss Chomsky's politics here, but I'd like to know why you'd think that Chomsky's linguistics, or indeed anyone's linguistics, would correlate with rightwingerhood. Andreas