-- At 10:59 AM 10/7/2000 -1000, Reese wrote:
You've yet to make a coherent argument that will stand on its own
I have presented examples of Chomsky citing vaguely specified sources that supposedly provide evidence for all sorts of astonishing things, supposedly provide evidence for the then Soviet line, yet strange to report, no one is able to produce this alleged evidence. When the Soviet line changed, no one continued to claim these things were true. In particular, no one continued to claim the existence of "repeated discoveries that massacre reports were false" I have looked for this alleged evidence, and not found it. It does not appear to exist. It is the job of Chomsky's fans, not my job, to find these "repeated discoveries that massacre reports were false", and the rest. That was an example of evidence that Chomsky claimed existed, but which does not exist.
Give me a valid, pre-79 quote, give me a valid, conflicting, post-79 quote, and tell me what is damning about the two quotes, if you can.
Chomsky before 1979: (falsely purporting to be quoting "highly qualified specialists") : : executions have numbered at most in the thousands; that : : these were localized in areas of limited Khmer Rouge : : influence and unusual peasant discontent, where brutal : : revenge killings were aggravated by the threat of : : starvation resulting from the American destruction and : : killing Chomsky after 1979, in the documentary film "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media" called the Khmer Rouge the perpetrators of the : : worst atrocity of the modern era. Of course a film citation is almost impossible to check. I could be making up that citation in the same way that Chomsky makes up most of his citations, locating the bogus citations in hard to check places. In fact I have never seen the movie and do not intend to see it, but fans of Chomsky endlessly cite those above words as evidence that Chomsky is not a supporter of the Khmer Rouge. Just do a search for "worst atrocity of the modern era" in Deja News. And indeed, what they claim is true: Once Soviet policy changed, Chomsky was no longer a supporter of the Khmer Rouge. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG xqYRAjMOSnaZ+jIobjTAWT2jqUFDEhppFxi1B4H0 4zhCSxvpXJfiyFBN7bgdDJM1ghMMrZqMV9Va6jPaj