From: Randall Randall (wolfkin@freedomspace.net)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 12:46:43 MST
I don't really know much about Chomsky. However, does it seem
odd to anyone else that Mr. Clark seems to not be reading the
very passages he quotes? I don't want to be drawn into any
argument about Chomsky's merits or demerits, as I have nothing
to say on that matter. I've left without further comment the
specific parts to which I refer:
(references to 'Me' refer to Mr. Clark.
John K Clark wrote:
> "Jeff Davis" <jrd1415@yahoo.com>
>
> >>Me:
> >>he called his racist rant "extensive independent historical
> >>research"
> >It reads, "Since 1974 he has been conducting extensive independent
> >historical research into the "Holocaust" question."
>
> Ah, pardon me but exactly what am I wrong about? You seem to be reading the
> same line I am. By the way, I wonder why an expert in language feels the
> need to put the word Holocaust in quotation marks. And what is the
> "question"?
> >Chomsky never denied the holocaust.
>
> "I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of
> gas chambers or even denial of the Holocaust. Nor would there be
> anti-Semitic implications, per se, in the claim that the Holocaust (whether
> one believes it took place or not) is being exploited, viciously so, by
> apologists for Israeli"[...] "I see no hint of anti-Semitic implications in
> Faurisson's work"
> >> Me:
> >> Chomsky said he didn't know anything about Faurisson
> >> but then calls him "a relatively apolitical liberal",
> > Wrong again.
> Wrong? Wrong! Are you saying Chomsky didn't make such a despicable
> comment? If so then you are once again dead wrong.
> > Chomsky said, and I quote:
> > I have nothing to say here about the work of Robert
> > Faurisson or his critics, of which I know very little
>
> It is quite true that Chomsky did say that, and then he started to catalog
> all the wonderful virtues of Mr. Faurisson, a man he claimed to know nothing
> about.
Weird.
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> "[The] poetic justice of cause and effect compels respect, compassion." -- Faithless, God is a DJ.
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