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Aswad -> RE: VA Tech shooting -- It's how Iraqis LIVE every day... (4/18/2007 8:08:52 PM)
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I HAVE read some of Chomsky's stuff. I think he is reprehensible.
Fair enough.
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If you are a Chomsky fan then you are of a certain political bent that will never ben changed irrespective of how much debate there is on a topic. Right?
First off, I'm not a "fan", except maybe if you count his contributions in such fields as linguistics, where there are certain parallells to people like Donald Knuth.
I think he's an entertaining read, has a fairly good memory, and some very good points. His political preference is not to my liking, however.
Debate has been known to change my mind in the past. A history teacher, who was a fan of Chomsky as I recall, managed to sway me away from a strong political view in that direction, to one that I held for about 4 years after that, until settling on the view I've held since that time. QED. The exact contents are irrelevant. Please do not assume I'm not open to being convinced, it just happens to take more than a heated argument.
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C'mon...say it...your mind is NOT going to be changed no matter what evidence may be introduced that contradicts your position. Your position is set in stone.
I'm going to say that your statement, and your previous posts, indicate you might be projecting your own issues onto me, and that it's an incorrect assumption. I hope I'm wrong about this, that your position is in fact mutable, and will assume so in good faith, unless told otherwise.
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You like Chomsky? Good for you, we are diametrically opposed to each other politically.
No, I don't particularly like him as a person, from what little I've read that hasn't been about specific causes or science. Nor do I like his political alignment.
Why do you infer diametrical opposition to each other? That would indicate that you are a royalist with a preference for communist states without individual freedoms or constitutional safeguards, among other things, if it were true. I doubt this is the case.
My political position does not involve any form of democracy currently tested by man. By extension, neither does it include Chomsky's position of anarcho-syndicalism or any other form of mass-democracy posited so far. Insofar as I'm forced to make choices in a typical democracy, I would tend toward fiscally conservative liberal parties with some integrity. There happens to be one such over here, although they get few seats, and I vote for them because they're the least nauseating political party here.
This is not the topic for the debate, though, and I'm just disclosing it so you can cease debating me, and get back to debating the topic at hand. Okay? "Friends"?
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