Re: The On and Off Topic of Non-linguistic Flame Baiting (WAS: flame-baiting)

Quoting Jim Grossmann <jimg4732@...>:

> Hi, all,
>
> With all apologies to those concerned, I think that the recent criticisms of
> Mark P. Line's commentaries on the state of modern linguistics are
> completely out of line.
While I think the same of the form of (some of) those criticisms, I think
they're right on substance - the List would be better off without this
discussion of Chomsky.

> I fail to see why Mark's critical views about Chomsky should offend anyone.
If I were Chomsky or a Chomskyite, I'd be offended.

> One would think that those among us who have an intellectual bent would
> accept differences of opinion about the words and works of influential
> thinkers.
And the rest of us?


As I said at the beginning of this, please keep any discussion of Chomsky's
politics off-list. It's OT and inflammable. Moreover, since discussing
Chomskyism's supposedly baleful effects on the academic province of linguistics
quite obviously also causes bad blood, I would humbly beg those interested in
discussing it to carry it too off-list.

                                                          Andreas

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