Re: CHAT: Chomskyite
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 28, 2002, 9:20 |
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On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 03:58:17 EDT David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>
writes:
> In a message dated 07/27/02 11:23:45 PM, czhang23@AOL.COM writes:
> << " If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we
> despise, we don't believe in it at all. " --- Noam Chomsky >>
> Ah, was that from the thing where he wrote a preface or forward
> or
> something to the book that said the Holocaust was a hoax--The Great
> Hoax of
> the Twentieth Century, or something? Reminds me of people defending
> Eminem,
> "It's okay because he doesn't really believe in what he's saying!"
> My, my, my...
> -David
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I don't really see those things as similar... after all Eminem is
supposed to be an 'artist', so has a right to 'lie' in the same way that
all fiction-writers, song-writers, RPG-gamers, etc, do. It's not like he
was telling people that their butchered ancestors never existed.
-Stephen (Steg), brother of the Left-Handed Lithuanian
"keil mevaser mevaser ve'eimer."