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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (39662)4/15/2004 6:32:34 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 793864
 
I have no problem calling apologists for the Khmer Rouge "evil"

Well, I gather you do have your standards.

It might be interesting/fun to discuss this for a moment, since Chomsky supporting Khmer Rouge hardly meshes with other positions he has taken and is taking.

Here's a 1993 quote from Chomsky with a url. Let's bat this issue around: quotes and the contexts from which they are derived. This one, as you can see, comes from the documentary "Manufacturing Consent" which I've never seen. Chomsky's gets to conspiracies much too quickly for my taste but that's quite different from the charge you've now made.

I also see from a brief bit of chasing around the internet that there is some debate as to whether it's appropriate to label Chomsky the way you have. For my part, it's certainly not consonant with the little I know about his views.

So here goes, the quote:

Chomsky
"I mean the great act of genocide in the modern period is Pol Pot, 1975 through 1978-that atrocity-I think it would be hard to find any example of a comparable outrage and outpouring of fury and so on and so forth. So that's one atrocity. Well, it just happens that in that case history did set up a controlled experiment. "

And here's the link:

zmag.org

I gather from the transcript that the controlled experiment he had in mind was East Timor.
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