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Old 11-07-2007, 04:29 PM
Bill Haywood Bill Haywood is offline
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Default Re: Chomsky on Anarchism (sidenote; education)

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I don't see how this article by Chomsky can be interpreted to be anything other than tacitly supporting the Khmer Rouge and explicitly denying the genocide.

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So provide some quotes to prove it. Or by "tacitly," do you mean that you get to reinterpret everything he says?

Here's a quote from the conclusion about reports of atrocities by the Khmer Rouge:

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We do not pretend to know where the truth lies amidst these sharply conflicting assessments; rather, we again want to emphasize some crucial points. What filters through to the American public is a seriously distorted version of the evidence available

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This was 1977, for chrisakes. The "evidence available" was still trickling out, and as he showed, some was fake. He took the proper position of any skeptic: how do we know which reports are accurate when many have been fabricated?
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