Chomsky - Perle Debate - Part 16
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Perle was impressed. So was I.
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@SkyGuySunny As regards this particular debate, Perle is a laid back political dinosaur/oaf and was the wrong person to be selected; someone of Christopher Hitchen's ilk would have challenged Chomsky's autistic digressions appropriately. Without doubt, Chomsky is supremely intelligent, but then again, many other dysfunctional nutjobs throughout history were too. That does not mean they have a monopoly on the truth - to believe so is irresponsible and dangerous in the extreme.
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@SkyGuySunny If his conspiratorial arguments had any genuine political credentials, he would have stood for office long ago. Alas though, his 'beliefs' have as much authority and popular support as David Irving's anti-holocaust ramblings.
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@SkyGuySunny What does 'academic superiority and intellectual/scholastic dominance' actually mean - that he speaks the truth? Such a condescending fawning towards Chomsky and the academic bubble he inhabits (has he ever been to Vietnam/Somalia/Iraq, for example?) encapsulates the reason why his opinions resonate as much among the 'normal' population as the beliefs of, say, the Church Of Scientology or the Branch Davidians.
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Owned!!!
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@skegnetty Excellent example of the kind of comment someone would make when the debater apologetic to his worldview gets dominated by the opponent by any intellectual or scholastic standard imaginable. It's easy for someone without the intelligence and/or will to grasp a certain thesis to dismiss academic superiority as suffocation (implying people are too stupid to follow a sustained argument) and "blow dried quotes" and statistics, as if documentation is irrelevant to making a point.
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@skegnetty It was very contextualised. Perle was the one that dodged the issues. And had no citations whatsoever.
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Interesting, the sycophancy of some towards Chomsky here - Perle was basically not permitted to speak, with Chomsky (true to form) hijacking the discussion in his usual style - suffocating people with an input flood of decontextualised, spliced and blow-dried quotes/stats from dubious sources, semantic convolution and monotonous piety. Seems very convincing to easily over-awed pseudo-intellectuals, many of whom could be heard guffawing with feigned amusement in the background.
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That bell going off in the background indicates every time Perle is totally obliterated by Chomsky
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Vikings founded Greenland.
Finders keepers.
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It was pointless having Perle there. He contributed absolutely nothing.
johnnycon 3 years ago 16
Perle is a Zombie.
Lawlow1978 3 years ago 10