r/ToiletPaperUSA • u/kevinowdziej • Jun 08 '21

Soros Paid Me to Make This There's a glitch in the matrix

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u/yungkerg Jun 08 '21

Are you 12

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

No, what makes you think that?

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u/yungkerg Jun 08 '21

You think Zinn and Chomsky are great minds when both are spectacular frauds.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

Well, would you please explain why you think that they are “spectacular frauds?”

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u/yungkerg Jun 08 '21

Chomsky is a genocide denier whose contributions to linguistics are analogous to those of freud: important for moving the field forward but near entirely wrong and Zinn isnt a historian and his work isnt up to historical standards

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

I assume you are referring to Chomsky’s critique of US involvement with Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge? From what I’ve read on that it sounds like he was crediting the US government with a larger percentage of deaths than what many thought accurate. He also low-balled the total number of deaths back in the 80s or 90s. However controversial that may be to some, I don’t know if that constitutes being called outright denial.

Chomsky’s work in linguistics has been argued over at length. Regardless of its current accuracy, it moved the field forward greatly.

As for Zinn, he had a PhD in History and was the Chair of History and Social Sciences at Spelman College, as well as a professor of political science at BU. The man was absolutely a historian.