Noam Chomsky - Interview w/ Israeli News 2010 1 of 3

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Interview : May 23, 2010

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[LSRochon]

It is abundantly clear that the [Palestinian]refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?

—Bertrand Russell, 31 January 1970.

[MasterRyu3]

this interview was a total waste of his precious time. of course he was very calm, patient, and composed because he deals with media scum like her all the time. these stupid reporters who are influenced by whatever political agenda cant touch chomsky on any level. he hates the mass media, he wrote a book about their destructive practices. itll be a sad day when this man dies, he is one of my heroes, and im a muslim from pakistan.

[Sakhalinskii]

@urcritic

Have a look this choice quote about the word from the 19th Century:

"BITCH. A she dog, or doggess; the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman, even more provoking than that of whore. ["Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1811]"

[Sakhalinskii]

Feminism is about achieving equality, to believe anything else is to be consciously ignorant of a great deal of activism and literature in the field. It's also about reserving the right to remind people that words are, in a semiotic context, signs, the written form siginifying an unwritten meaning, which can in turn allude to others meanings dependent on the context of the given word and how it is used at any given time.

[urcritic]

@Sakhalinskii If you think it's sexist, that's your problem. Would a muslim imam be correct if he said, "That remark against Muhammad was offensive to every one"? What on earth was that last sentence you added? I don't know if you're being facetious, or whether you like twisting people's words around for your advantage. I'll say it again, the statement stands on its own: I'm actually for equal rights for everyone and this is precicely the reason why I would never call myself a feminist.

[Sakhalinskii]

@urcritic The word bitch isn't only sexist when you use it in sexist contexts, it's inherently sexist (unless you're talking about female dogs, and then what word would you describe comparing women to female dogs? Starts with an S). I commented because you were being a sexist douche by calling her a bitch and insulting her by referring to her gender, I don't care if you're "for equal rights for everyone". You would never call yourself a feminist because you want to call women bitches?

[tarantala111]

Hostile interviewer ruined the interview.

[urcritic]

@Sakhalinskii Take whatever meaning of the word you like. I didn't use it in a sexist context and if you take offence, that's frankly your problem. I can't believe you are detracting from the important issue at hand by making a pithy argument motivated by what I can only assume is some kind of uber-radical feminist ideology. I'm actually for equal rights for everyone and this is precicely the reason why I would never call myself a feminist.

[Sakhalinskii]

@urcritic 'Bitch' and cock aren't equivalents, you could have just as easily called her a cock and it would have meant the same as if you called a man that. But 'bitch' is a pretty foul word, it exists to police the concept of womanhood, and is applied liberally when the laws and requirements pertaining to that are breached.

[urcritic]

@Sakhalinskii Sexism? Either you replied to the wrong person or you misunderstand what sexism means. I criticised her because of what she was saying and I resorted to adjectives appropriate to her gender. I would have made similar comments if it had been a man. I'm sure many people, including myself, have called Bill O'Reilly "an absolute cock" before - I don't think you would complain about sexism in that instance.

[Sakhalinskii]

@urcritic Keep the sexism out of it, she's the Israeli equivalent of Bill O'Reilly, but he isn't commonly criticised in relation to his masculinity.

[JerrySPsy]

@LSRochon It is anything but abundantly clear. What is abundantly clear is that Palestinians would have never lost any land if they had not tried to ethnically cleanse the Jews from that country. They gambled with what they had when they listened to Arab leaders call for wiping out all Jews - & the Jews had a damn right not to be defeated & annihilated. And now everyone wants to blame the victor?! Look what Arabs did to Jews in other Arab countries - expelled them & stole everything