Thomas Sowell and Steven Pinker on Noam Chomsky

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[@tedwilson1401]

Chomsky has tried to fundamentally degrade America for years. Khrushchev said America will destroy itself from within (Chomsky and the Democratic Party).

[@TheSpiritOfTheTimes]

Lmao, the insane degenerate boomers are at it again.

[@normalhuman6581]

U jokers

[@cmhardin37]

@@TheSpiritOfTheTimes whose that?

[@josiplilic3384]

O M G!?🤔🤕😵

[@josiplilic3384]

Chomsky has been cirticizing dems since begining of time. WTF?????

[@Seekthetruth3000]

If Chomsky honestly thinks the universities are dominated by the right, his judgment and perception of reality must be questioned.

[@jaronschut1086]

For Chomsky anyone less inclined to exterminate and quarantine his/her own population less than Xi Ping / Pol Pot / Anthony Fauci combined must be a far-right, swastika tattooed neonazi....

[@DOR8421]

He's just good at semantics. Peterson cries too much to be a conservative.

[@Mrst3lios89]

Or you could always do what every one of them does. That is turn what he said on top of itself. So, he says Peterson is so far on the right that he thinks universities are dominated by the left and another opinion could simply be that Chomsky is so far on the left that he doesn’t realise the universities are dominated by the left.

[@chrismathis4162]

To be fair, everyone is right of Chomsky, including Karl Marx.

[@dontbothertoreply9755]

if you are not a commie literally you are the right, for him and Michael Moore and many democrats Biden is right wing because he started a war.

[@dragons_red]

The irony of what Chomsky was saying about Peterson. It was dead wrong and applies exactly (just flip the terms Left and Right) to Chomsky. He's so far Left anyone who isn't that far he calls a far right winger (which is what all far lefties do these days).

[@eddarby469]

That's how leftists are doing it these days. They blame the right for doing what the left does but the right is not doing. With the major media committed to leftist ideology nobody will be told the truth in the left-right debate.

[@ojc1787]

You just proved his point, you are so right wing that you think he is far left and besides where is the context of what he said all the video make did was show a clip of chomsky, then fail to provide context if I wanted the full, truth of what he said he would've provided it. But no, why wouldn't he provide full context? Just a thought.

[@ojc1787]

@@eddarby469 * Major media except fox news.

[@eddarby469]

@@ojc1787 I'll agree that Fox News doesn't match the other major media. Everything is delivered with a spin.

[@065Tim]

@@ojc1787 I think you missed all points made.

[@richtea615]

The notion that universities are dominated by the Right is the most fantastical thing I've ever heard. Unicorns and dragons are more plausible.

[@Wastelander30]

And free markets, for that matter

[@craigdaurizio686]

But the education system isn't monolithic. It's not like when I was studying engineering there was "left" or "right" education, there were neither. He's likely referring to everything related to business and finance, which if you've been paying attention to the world generally has influence on many issues and laws through lobbying, bribery, and back door deals. So....yeah, if you've ever read Naomi Klein you'd learn about Friedman's "Chicago Boys" and their influence throughout history, it's not good stuff in the way of Newton inventing Calculus good stuff, it's good stuff in what 99% of the world would view as diabolic. So sure, humanities studies are likely what you people refer to as left leaning, but Chomsky is correct in that the education system leans in favor of status quo, and again, if you've been paying any sort of attention, that stuff isn't good for almost anyone over the long run, and we're probably all about to witness where this is leading in the next decade considering the events of the past two years. And people who study humanities are likely to do things like employ their writing skills, so it might appear that the world is being veered by their cause, but it's not in any way and you'd be a fool to think it was.

[@dribblesg2]

Studies five years old have the ratio of Left : Right in the universities as between 10:1 up to 30:1, depending on the department, and the overwhelming disparity grows every year, as the last remaining conservatives get squeezed out. These studies include self-identification data from professors themselves. It's been this way for decades. The problem is Chomsky is an ideologue. In order to maintain his world-view, he uses a ridiculous metric for classifying what is on the 'right', and in his mind it is anyone or anything associated with power, finance and/or hierarchical organization. (As if the Left exists for anything besides seeking power). So for him the Soviets, Harvard, the US media, international finance etc, are all 'far right'.

[@yoza3116]

@@dribblesg2 Chomsky doesn't tend to use the term far-right to describe any of these institutions. The Soviet Union he generally describes as totalitarian state capitalists, Harvard and the US media as establishment propagandists and international finance as a coercive instrument to subordinate foreign state policies to serve the interests of concentrations of private capital. He generally uses the term far-right to describe the Republican party as this is how most of the rest of the world view these people.

[@craigdaurizio686]

@@dribblesg2 Ahhh there ya go, depending on the department. Can you link these studies you're referring to? It's probably not conservatives being squeezed out, it's more likely that people have less unfettered market ideas in light of where we're at. It sounds like you're suggesting that there are a vast amount of people with conservative leanings, but for the majority of the 99%, they obviously don't and it's not cause they're lazy, it's because they work 40+ hours a week and if they come up short they're advised: Just get a higher paying job. Obviously their response is: wow why didn't I think of that. I get it, I used to do shit work and moved into engineering, but I know plenty of very hard-working, intelligent people who simply haven't landed solid paying work. I would think your comment on grabbing power is somewhat ironic no? Political leaning has nothing to do with how much you want to grab power, everyone does, including everyone you believe who doesn't. If you argue that the "left" (lol you must be American or one of the newly whiny Canadians) is trying to grab power through government, then you must also concede that when the "right" grabs power, it's effectively the same as mafia - unelected, opaque transparency, violent and ruthless at times, and involved in who knows what to keep their racket running, sure as shit they aren't aiming for an open market.

[@russtang24]

Chomsky is the living embodiment of the phrase “some things are so absurd only an intellectual could believe them”

[@antidote7]

So the majority of academics are anti capitalism? Doubt it. They are neoliberal capitalists, which is a right wing ideology.

[@seanmoriarty3412]

russtang24 Let's have an example

[@tomemery7890]

@@seanmoriarty3412 the idea that there are no innate psychological differences between men and women

[@seanmoriarty3412]

@@tomemery7890 That would be an absurd idea, I'm not sure anyone who's serious hold it though...in fact there are innate psych differences between everyone, but i understand your point, I think...i mean hormones are one of many things that affect psych, and obviously there is some difference there. In many ways, humans are expected to reconcile and/or overcome things (including psychological predilections) to adhere to reason. I mean, that's Ayn Rand, not Noam Chomsky or the like :)

[@Marshallgill]

@@seanmoriarty3412 Gaslighting? Come on! In this very video he claims that American Universities are "dominated by the right", an abject absurdity.

[@Tinfoilhat2023]

By Chomsky‘s own logic he himself is so far left and that is why others are far right to him. You see how this works?

[@andrewsmith4803]

Good one

[@marselluswallace6]

Precisely

[@mondopinion3777]

Sharp observation. When doing grad studies in Political Science, where Chomsky was much admired, I caught him in a positional contradiction and realized with a shock that he is a big con artist.

[@manoslampidis304]

@@mondopinion3777 what was the contradiction?

[@mondopinion3777]

@@manoslampidis304 I'm sorry, I can't remember It was very subtle and I was in a peak state of consciousness at the time from stimulating discussions with my professors.

[@jameseric2543]

The most important and indubitably true statement in this video is Thomas Sowell's statement that intellectuals never do anything but write books and therefore are never responsible for anything. This is undeniably true no matter what your politics. I should know. I'm a retired humanities professor. I was a member of a small circle of academics in the same field, and for fifty years I had been the only one who had done something or even proposed doing something related to our field. They all criticized everything American, including its foreign policy. For what I had done I received only scorn. For what I proposed doing they said I had psychological problems. Now the oldest of our circle has died and the rest of us will follow him in the not too distant future. And nothing has changed.

[@mck1972]

Well Stated!

[@omarsabih]

HAHAHA idiots

[@mck1972]

@@omarsabih , Now be nice: Intellectuals are not, ' idiots '. They are just misguided.

[@timquigley986]

Sowell is also an intellectual though

[@mikearchibald744]

Uh, what does this Sowell guy do but write books? Moreover he doesn't even seem to write about issues, all he does is criticize all the american policies that raised the middle class out of the lower class. US foreign policy is imperialistic, there is no arguing that.Arguing against imperialism is not only moral, but ethically necessary. The US had NO reason to be in Vietnam or any other country where they have had interests. Not only has it been bad for those countries, but bad for america, whose population has essentially always been pretty isolationist to the point of not even knowing where most countries are on a map.

[@Osafune2]

To say universities are dominated by the right is utterly delusional

[@sallybrookner4158]

Depends where you think the center bar is.

[@stephman02]

The propensity to exaggerate, stretch the truth and outright lie is high in the anarchistic left universe.

[@oppothumbs1]

@@sallybrookner4158 The Right has its universities but the Left has control over many more and controls the Media.

[@jamessilver6429]

​@stephman02 they love fantasy, like a bizarre world version of little girls playing tea time . btw Joseph mcarthy was right( forgive the pun)

[@slXD100]

@@sallybrookner4158 not really, it doesn't depend on that. simply judge it by the political spectrum and the perspectives universities follow and you can easily tell.. stop being intelectually difficult, it isn't cool nor true

[@TK-sn3rx]

Chomsky misrepresents the issues in universities so much that it makes me legitimately question his basic ability to reason. How can you get it so wrong? Chomsky should stick to what he knows.

[@stormcrow1970]

Noam Chomsky at 0:20 : "In fact, universities are dominated by the Right." Words have no meaning, nothing matters...

[@aasthashah5625]

He doesn't mean culturally. He means on economics. Elites often push far left on culture to divert attention away from far right economic policy

[@stormcrow1970]

@@aasthashah5625 the context of Chomsky's statement makes it clear that this isn't what he meant.

[@aliensoup2420]

This is a common talking point of the left. I had a leftie at work once try to tell me the media was dominated by the Right. They will say anything for advantage.

[@cliffgaither]

@@aliensoup2420 :: You could easily have done the research to argue against your co-worker AND if you had, you woulda discovered he / she was right. It isn't The Left that tosses out any misconceptions / lies. It's The Republican Party which throws out unsubstantiated verbiage. Trump has told over 3000 lies ! FOXNews has been discredited, many times. Bill O'Reilly just blatantly lied when he said the Slaves in Washington D.C. were treated well doing their time building various Governmental Buildings ( The White House ). Abigail Van Buren left a written account of what she saw of the treatment of the Slaves that drastically differs from Bill O'Reilly's --- & she was there ! In 2007, The International Gallup Poll released a result stating that countries from all over the World, considered the United States the greatest threat to World Peace. No Media in the United States reported the results. That Leftist, Commie, Muslim, born in Kenya went before the House & Senate, after The Gallop Poll results & said w / a strait face :: "The United States is the most admired Country in the World". Somebody's lying to us !

[@maximuskhan2100]

@@cliffgaither Words have no meaning, nothing matters. Your disconnect from reality is quite impressive.

[@dewilderdbetter]

Sowell delivered the best and tersest summary of American society with: The problem is not that Johnny can’t read and the problem is not that Johnny can’t think but the problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is and confuses it with feeling.

[@stevemiller1517]

A blend the movies, being there w/Peter Seller's, and idiocracy.

[@jezzamobile]

Intellectuals: "People whose end products are ideas (and who escape the real-world consequences of them)." - Thomas Sowell. EXCELLENT

[@gyozakeynsianism]

It's not excellent. It's idiotic. It's perfectly self serving and ideological. He himself is an intellectual! But no, it's just a monolithic bloc of liberals with their prefect agreement with bad ideas about how to shape society.

[@gyozakeynsianism]

@@tabjones5163 People who embrace anti-intellectualism - conservatives who reject climate science, leftists who reject modern economics - are not people whose ideas should be taken seriously.

[@relaxingsounds1386]

@@tabjones5163 woooooosh

[@NKRevolution]

Multiverses are real

[@JakeWitmer]

It's an enormous mistake to speak in unqualified generalities like Sowell does here. (All intellectuals do this? No.) Aside from that, of course, he's correct. Pinker's miscategorization of minarchists as anarchists is equally unintelligent. Its a good idea to read Ayn Rand's book, "For the new intellectual."

[@seanvassar1117]

Pinker "Chomsky is famous for two major reasons" Sowell "if Chomsky would have just stayed a linguist, no one would even know who he is"

[@Omerkosar]

such a stupid words . chomsky has the most excerpt in academia

[@Mr196710]

@@Omerkosar He was placed on a pedestal to be used by the elites.

[@alphafox400]

Sowell actually said that no one other than a linguist would have known who he is. Pinker pointed out the basis for his reputation which was used to give him undeserved credibility in other areas.

[@MonkeyDIvan]

Same could be applied for Sowell. If the guy was born white, you conservatives wouldn't give two rats' arses about him. But you people like to be grifters, so I get why you would hang on to this supposedly "greatest economist of our era" - who by the way no living academics ever cite, because he is precisely such a poor economist. You love to see it lol.

[@seanvassar1117]

Sure it was a bit paraphrased. But have you ever read a chomsky book on linguistics? Few people besides linguists could even understand his work. Sowell and Pinker seem a little jealous and at least resentful of Chomsky's popularity from the left. The right never embraced Sowell and Pinker is not as political for say.

[@andrewbrooks6882]

Noam called for the starving of the unvaxed until they comply. This should tell you everything you need to know

[@andreif7992]

It boggles my mind how pretty much everyone forgot that Chomsky was a vocal supporter of Pol Pot. And didn't even have enough integrity to admit that it was a mistake.

[@ashleywebb2736]

Is that a fact. Citation needed as they say

[@andreif7992]

@@ashleywebb2736 it is a fact. Lookup "Chomsky Cambodian genocide denialism book"

[@StillAliveAndKicking_]

@@ashleywebb2736Just do a little research, Chomsky has supported several genocidal regimes, and refused to accept the evidence of crimes.

[@CookieMendoza]

@@ashleywebb2736 Not quite. He maintained that reports of Pol Pot's mass murders were "probably" Western propaganda.

[@migkanungo3946]

Lol. Not at all. US supported Pol Pot, and the casualties of US bombing of Cambodia were inaccurately added to Khmer Rouge genocide. Chomsky showed the written record of this historical mixup, and did not “support” Pol Pot at all. Typical fallacy.

[@lorenzo6mm]

Noam Chomsky holds the world record for quoting himself in his books. 90% of his bibliography and notes quote himself in his previous books ! THOUSANDS of SELF DELUDED references to Marxist and Anarchist destruction and revisionist EVERYTHING !

[@antidote7]

Ya think? Give me an example?

[@lorenzo6mm]

@@antidote7 No YOU prove me WRONG ! Chomsky in the Academic World of MULTIPLE Phd's is a notorius self perpetuating ONE MAN ARMY of QUOTES to HIMSELF and his Maoist Anarchist semantics and NOTES and Bibliography. Its the # 1 REASON he has only ONE pHd. AND TOTALLY UN related to his "Lifes' work in Political and Economic LEFT WING Theory ! He is a pompous, self aggrandizing MONOTONED (sic) sociopath of LEFT WING MESSIAH complex of Politics that IGNORE arguments to his SELF and his personality ISSUES ! Let alone the MOUNTAINS of EVIDENCE that CONTRADICT every single DETAIL of his monotouus drivel.

[@antidote7]

You made the claim, you have the burden of proof, not me, lol. You got nuthin...

[@benedictespinoza287]

This Chomsky dude initially got his fame from his theories on syntax and languages. Beside revolutionizing linguistics, his works greatly contribute to advance computer science, cognitive science, philosophy, etc. This alone gets him tons of academic citations every years. More importantly, this makes Chomsky much greater figure than Sowell, whose fame mainly came from being a lackey/servant for the conservative establishment.

[@MonkeyDIvan]

Isn't the definition of Marxism just the study of Capitalism? Stop using it to support your anti-left ideology.

[@oppothumbs1]

Chomsky’s moral perspective is completely one-sided. No matter how great the crimes of the regimes he has favored, such as China, Vietnam, and Cambodia under the communists, Chomsky has never demanded their leaders be captured and tried for war crimes. Instead, he has defended these regimes for many years to the best of his ability through the use of evidence he must have realized was selective, deceptive, and in some cases invented.

[@kristiandoon8976]

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect ~ Mark Twain

[@thearchangel9835]

I love that saying ❤

[@MrMcGreed]

Well.... except in most scientific inquiry...

[@krazo4Christ]

A man with God is always in the majority. ~ John Knox

[@kristiandoon8976]

@@krazo4Christ no evidence available for your assertion.

[@krazo4Christ]

@@kristiandoon8976, am I supposed to provide a source for John Knox saying that? Or are you just being a stick in the mud because you don't understand what God is?

[@cloneengineer1716]

Thomas Sowell, because he's not on the liberal-bandwagon, is the most under-rated Genius of our time.

[@cloneengineer1716]

I find your obvious communist perspective.....disturbing.@googlenazicompany5935

[@robertdavidson8028]

I'm afraid he's really not a genius. That is a word that is bandied about far too much nowadays, and has been for a while; its over-use really debases the coinage. There are a number of other words that have suffered the same over-exposure - "iconic" is used at the drop of a hat, and "literally" is an extremely fashionable one at present (mostly when it's either not necessary or not even correct). I hope these fashions end soon, although I am far from certain about that. However, I am comforted that the over-use (and nearly always a mis-use as well) of "simplistic" (when all people actually meant was "simple") has nearly disappeared completely from everyday use now.

[@junkscience6397]

@@robertdavidson8028 lol. Well, nobody will ever mistake you for being a "genius", that's for sure. LOL. But pissy and pedantic? Certainly! Sounds like you have WAY more problems with language use than with Sowell. And forgive me, but you have no idea what you're talking about: the man's a genius. Now put "that" in your "pipe" and "smoke" it, chum.....p..

[@scottmarcum6639]

I once heard Chomsky called the greatest mind of the century…no wonder we’re in this shape.

[@blib6205]

Probably greater than yours tho.

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

@@blib6205 Nah, I'm not actively trying to destroy families and society like Chumpsky is.

[@nuckygulliver9607]

@@blib6205 noway! Chimpsky spoke in favour of starving people that don't comply to big pharma's push to force inject! He has no idea of what CONSENT means! He believes universities are right wing? I can't imagine being as dumb as Chimpsky.

[@nuckygulliver9607]

@@blib6205 Chimpsky isn't liberal anymore. Forcing injections of an experimental 'vaccine' is the opposite of liberal! Your name should not be 'b lib' if upu aren't sure what lib means. The liberals are now burning books. We had a book burning in Ontario where Harry Potter books were burned along with 3000 other books that the authoritarian left didn't approve of. Trudeau's party is called the Liberals but yhey want to control the internet for canadians and fund over 1500 news and media organizations. is that liberal to you? They called the military emergency act on parking violations ... is yhat liberal? Liberals are now pro censorship and want bug pharma yo have the right to get you fired if you refuse their products. Liberals have turned fas cist and Chimpsky is on board

[@coolmarkyt]

In this brief clip Pinker basically admits Chomsky singlehandedly rewrote the modern theory of linguistics.

[@ReallyGoodBadBoy]

“We’ve become so ‘intellectual’ we can no longer bear the truth.” That phrase perfectly captures this awful feeling I have experienced countless times over the last few years, but couldn’t describe myself.

[@mck1972]

Yes there is no doubt that Chomsky himself is far too much of an, ' intellectual ', to know what the, ' truth ', actually is. SMH

[@relaxingsounds1386]

@@mck1972 halfwit

[@electrosonicnebula]

We've become so Neandertal, more like. What do you think the porn, celebrity culture, Facebook hating is all about? Or the 10-minute Ted Talks supposed to replace books? Wtf?

[@Rowlph8888]

I just made this point, that Thomases effectiveely arguing that his own position is crap. also, and that we have to come to terrms with the facct that our natural state and human nature in general will lead to chaos and unpredictability, and moments of prosperrity and peace will be the rare moments in human experience, so be thankful you have lived through it. Effectively, him saying tha multilateral disarmament agreement, was naïve is tantamount to giving up on any hope for the human race. Ultimately he is saaying that we need to continue an arms race. "Justt in case" they get their neighbour is not only arming themselves, but will "probably" attack us. One might say that the delusion of the liberal intelligentsia, is preferable anyway because at least it gives a blissful state of mind,until thhe next period of chaos and despair.If you keep the conservative mindset, especially the extreme conservative mindset, then unless you're 1 of the small elite running things, you are going to spend the times of peace in austerity and hard work, with little joy, simply worrying about the next time of chaos and despair anyway, before needing to go through that unfortuunate Time period anyway

[@robertrussell2202]

@Rowlph8888 Try not to be so cynical and defeatist ma man. Being honest and truthful does not mean you have to despair if you accept reality and the tragedy of it all but bear it anyway bravely and strongly

[@CurtHowland]

The only reason Jordan Peterson seems "right" to Noam Chomsky is because Chomsky is so far "left" that Stalin seems "right".

[@pietzsche]

Stalin was a Leninist, Leninism is explicitly right wing, Lenin wrote a book about it.

[@useodyseeorbitchute9450]

When think about it, on some transgenderism or race-baiting those dudes would make Stalin look like moderate right.

[@spitxfire99]

@@pietzsche Delusional

[@pietzsche]

@@spitxfire99 It's a historical fact, you can look it up.

[@spitxfire99]

@@pietzsche Yes, government enforcement of socialist prescriptions is explicitly right wing? How do we know? Because a far left revolutionary said so. Cool, point to me the "right wing" tenets of Leninsm, I'm sure there's a plethora.

[@AndyKaknes]

Using Atilla The Hun as an analogy in a discussion concerning where one stands in the Left-Right political spectrum is beyond absurd, and nothing more than an exercise in polemics.

[@richardthompson5436]

Who knew Atilla was a raging conservative, only Chomsky, apparently.

[@AndyKaknes]

@@richardthompson5436 When you sit in an Ivory Tower all day you can come up with some of the most colorful analogies.

[@ulfschack]

Agreed. Speaking soft and almost inaudibly is not the same as having class.

[@kirk2767]

Attila the Hun was part of an Anarcho-Sydicalist commune.

[@AndyKaknes]

@@kirk2767 Finally, the political beliefs of Attila The Hun explained!!!

[@bonanzatime]

Noam Chumsky is now a Known Chumpsky. With his head up his Rumpsky.

[@brenlee9325]

😂

[@maximusaugustus6823]

Thomas Sowell has changed my perception of how I look at issues and made me a new man.

[@OompaLoompaFu]

How?

[@fasteddie4145]

Universities are dominated by the right? Seriously? which universities? please name a single one....

[@doesnotexist305]

Not even the Ivy League universities are right leaning institutions and you would think that if any institution would be right leaning it would be them. On the contrary, those universities are so far left that they’re rubbing noses with Marx.

[@gregcarter8656]

Folks who label Mormons as "right" could point to Mormon universities. Maybe likewise for Catholics and some other Christian groups. But those are subsets of religion-based universities, and certain other religion-based ones may be more "left" than "right". Generalizations about members of categories often run into counterexamples that weaken, or even disprove, the "rule".

[@jensgronning4436]

Hillsdale college, that’s about it

[@schechter01]

The only real example I can think of is Liberty University. Hillsdale College _might_ come in second but I can't say for sure.

[@KittredgeRitter]

They’re by the left in many areas. Economics and the hegemonic world of modernity is the center. Noam’s lying by saying the center is right wing.

[@becauseicount3483]

Calling Jordan Peterson far right is not only provocative but insane & undermines his credibility as a voice of reason, which is why many journalists I admire baffle me when they bow to Chomsky’s opinion as if no other could possibly count, especially when it comes to politics & instantly contradicts the idea that freedom of speech is about having to hear things you don’t like

[@frankjennings4489]

Calling Jordan Peterson Far-Right isn't insane. Whether he's Right-Wing or Far-Right is up for debate, but it's clear that Peterson considers anyone to the left of the Nazis to be excluded from the Far Right, so we can't take his word for granted when he excludes himself from the Far-Right. All that said, it is truly insane to suggest that Universities are "dominated" by the right. Saying such a thing would suggest that anyone who is not an avowed communist or anarchist is right-wing, which just doesn't reflect the feelings of the American public at all.

[@YourBestFriendforToday]

@Mitthenstein Peterson is a free speech advocate, fascists basically want to license it.

[@MrBannystar]

​@Mitthenstein *"Look at fascist ideology and classical conservative ideology. Explain to me how Peterson isn’t exactly a fascist? "* lol I've seen you in other comments sections making equally absurd remarks. It's somewhat difficult to prove a negative, so it's up to YOU to prove your assertion, but I'm not holding my breath. Seriously, you hypersensitive types need to learn how to define words properly.

[@matthewkopp2391]

Peterson obscures reality of most things. He is a paid propagandist on most topics. Take for example basic classical liberalism. At its core classical liberalism and its primary proponents were against concentrated corporate power. Adam Smith, Jefferson, Paine, Franklin and many others actively fought against this. The fact that Peterson perverts the classical liberal ideals. But of course classical liberalism was in reality the left wing of early liberal democracy. Would Peterson fit into the federalist frame. The answer is no for multiple reasons but primarily is he is in support of international corporate power and not protectionism. So he doesn’t even make it into the federalist frame. He is for far right international corporate power. And both federalists and classical liberals despite their differences both supported enlightenmentism. The fact that Peterson is willing to lie about philosophical ideas is evidence that he cares nothing for the enlightenment. His positions on social issues is really just a thin veneer of bullshit.

[@nm8023]

In addition to some of these comments, I would point out that Chomsky’s opinion appears to be that what is deemed leftist in the US is right leaning centrism in most Western countries.

[@t1mmytiger]

Imagine if black Americans listened to Thomas Sowell.

[@alankuntz6494]

Many of them do.Imagine if the bible thumper red neck illiterates listened to him.Their tiny heads would explode. haha

[@buntoncnd]

The mere confusion that "universities are dominated by the right," reflects a very strange position for someone claiming to be objective.

[@user-gq7sv9tf1m]

Just to add some context to the first clip, Chomsky also said in that interview that he does not follow Jordan Peterson, or know much about him.

[@yohanessaputra9274]

That is so stupid. Why on earth would you remark on something that you do not know. Chomsky intelligence is mentally decreasing

[@user-gq7sv9tf1m]

@@yohanessaputra9274 Yeah, I mean it’s obvious his intelligence has gone down, he’s like 92.

[@LoriNeuro]

@@yohanessaputra9274 he was directly asked what he thought about Jordan Peterson by the person interviewing him. At which point he said that he doesnt think of him--and then went on to generalize based on his assumptions. The criticisms that he made surrounding his assumptions about Peterson are apt...as is the multiple comments made on this video about Chomsky being so far to the left. It's a bad clip of him and I'm not sure why it's up front except to put him in a bad light.

[@terryritter7065]

@@LoriNeuro He still did not hesitate to give his opinion. Nor do I think it's changed much considering the things Chomsky has pushed in the past.

[@ComeAlongKay]

@@LoriNeuro The criticisms cannot be apt if he in fact knows little about him. I can understand how people can think Chomsky is legit, he is really good at coming off as that, like many intellectuals he’s a very smart dumb person. They can selectively gather data to support their agenda and duck and roll when anyone starts to pin them down on things like supporting dictators and being incredibly wrong about something they said. Like the Nazis they know how to use rhetoric, the appearance of legitimacy and credibility, and propaganda to get their agenda across. Chomsky is so much intellectual pomp rapped up in someone who’s able to be mostly dispassionate enough to seem considered. It’s nice to know he lived long enough to see the meteoric rise of his antithesis in Peterson. Any victory against the core of the leftist movement is a good thing.

[@BridgesOnBikes]

So unbelievably stupid... Chomsky has lost his mind if he thinks the universities are pushing “right” politics.

[@mck1972]

You are giving Chomsky a lot of credit for not losing his mind LONG BEFORE he made this statement! :-)

[@moodist1er]

You've obviously never listened to any lectures from Harvard or Yale schools of business. You've never listened to Chomsky outside of paraphrased sound bites. Never.

[@moodist1er]

But you are saying things like "unbelievably stupid" and " lost his mind" and that makes you look like you've never read a book, and you do anything you're told so long as it comes from a source that confirms the biases of your indoctrination.

[@mck1972]

@@moodist1er , Are you claiming that, ' lectures from Harvard or Yale schools of business ', demonstrate that those, ' universities are pushing “right” politics. "? And are you claiming that this statement by Chomsky is misrepresented, and/or taken out of context, in some way?

[@moodist1er]

@@mck1972 "right politics" = the neoliberal policies that ship US jobs overseas where they're allowed to pay an even lower slave wage. Rhetoric that growth is success even at the expense of the workers who produced the profits that the business models these schools teach steals all the value out of. I don't agree with everything Noam says, like hate speech is free speech, or being a zionist, but he's right about the indoctrination taught by our exploitive education system being designed to service elites at the expense of everyone else.

[@MolecularArts]

I'm old enough to remember when Chomsky was an apologist for the Khmer Rouge.

[@conelord1984]

And I am old enough to remember his support of the USSR and his remarks that if a hundred million people died to reach communist utopia it would be worth it.

[@gyozakeynsianism]

In that light, Sowell's rambling diatribe against "intellectuals" and his mangled history of the Vietnam War are kind of out of place, wouldn't you agree? Since when did Chomsky have any influence on Vietnam policy?

[@MolecularArts]

@@gyozakeynsianism "Mangled history"? "Since when did Chomsky have any influence on Vietnam policy?" I never suggested that he did.

[@gyozakeynsianism]

@@MolecularArts Sowell did. That's the content of the video.

[@MolecularArts]

@@gyozakeynsianism Sowell talked about the influence of intellectuals on society. What did he say that was in error?

[@corpgov]

Chomsky calling Peterson far right and deluded for saying that the intellectual establishment in the West is Marxist, is hilarious. I used to admire Chomsky in my youth. He's a clown

[@MattGPT-eh4cp]

I have watched several Chomsky youTubes and I have often seen Chomsky present as fact his own opinion. "Petersen says that Universities are dominated by The Left, when in fact Universities are dominated by The Right, Petersen just think everybody to the left of Gengis Kahn are Leftists." Anybody that did any research into that statement would know that Chomsky is wrong. Chomsky offers no proof, he doesn't even offer an example to support his argument, you are just supposed to accept as fact anything Chomsky says. He does this a lot. Now watch a Petersen interview and watch him support his ideas.

[@Marshallgill]

Chomsky isn't fit to wipe Peterson's behind.

[@etchalaco9971]

all you need is a catalogue of any college to know that it is the right the one that rules academia, Finance, Accounting, Business Management, Marketing, etc.

[@Marshallgill]

@@etchalaco9971 A bizarre statement. Just because Universities possess billion dollar endowments, that hardly makes them "right". Chomsky himself works for a rightist college? You use words who's meaning you do not understand.

[@Marshallgill]

So the place which employs Chomsky is on the Right?!!! They employ that Leftard turd but are conservative?!!! There are few human beings as full of shit as Chomsky. What is most surprising is the number of useful idiots who follow him.

[@etchalaco9971]

@@Marshallgill It makes them more "right" than left. How is it a university "dominated by the left" if it engages in capitalism and its catalogues are full of professions within a capitalist system? How are they leftist radicals dominating education?

[@jakeg848]

Wow. The irony of that opening statement by Chomsky. What an incredible swing and miss. Yet another cautionary tale against blind faith in prestigious intellectuals.

[@brianaguila6925]

People who blindly follow and promote ideas that were not and are not proven to work are suspicious tbh.

[@gyozakeynsianism]

That's true, but Sowell's statements weren't any better. He has this bizarre, ideological definition of "intellectual" and completely mangled the history of the Vietnam War.

[@MassDefibrillator]

I like that they cut the context of where he explains exactly what he means. Almost as if within the proper context, the statement is entirely lucid and fair.

[@garthornspike3648]

Nobody regards Chomsky as prestigious except like-minded fools.

[@mobdole]

@@garthornspike3648 was there a part in this video where sowell actually addressed anything Chomsky has been wrong about?

[@jackcarraway4707]

Sowell/Chomsky wouldn't be a debate; it would be Sowell giving a lecture.

[@dwl3006]

Sowell is an intellectual lightweight compared to Chomsky.

[@LovingLiberty76]

@@dwl3006LOL Did you bring some of your hallucinogenics for everyone?

[@alexb9969]

​@@LovingLiberty76Sowell has been terribly incorrect on a big number of topics conservatives love to excuse themselves with, including the dismissing of slave revoltes in the freeing of Black slaves, not just a political change of heart in the West

[@LovingLiberty76]

@@alexb9969 You are aware that Sowell was not always conservative, aren't you? He changed his views as he studied history. He doesn't dismiss slave revolts, but he also doesn't overstate them--slaves simply did not have the ability to end slavery, and in fact, the effort to end it came predominately from people in the West (e.g., Britain's West Africa Squadron trying to stop the Atlantic slave trade). Chomsky, on the other hand, is rarely right because he ignores facts that contradict his preferred view. For example, his thesis that the U.S. (and the West in general) "colonized" other countries to take their resources ignores the fact that "colonizers" always poured in more money (infrastructure, etc.) than they extracted (see: Barrington Moore, Jr.--and he wasn't exactly a foaming-at-the-mouth capitalist). (The exception to this may have been Belgium and Congo, an appalling history). Yes, it is likely that most in the West felt superior to the people they were dealing with, but those feelings were the basis of believing in the importance of imposing such principles as the rule of law, ending such barbaric practices as suttee (sati), etc. Chomsky, on the other hand, ignores Castro's brutality (political imprisonment, show trials, etc.) because Castro gave lip service to lifting up the peasants (who continue to live in desperate poverty--ain't communism grand?). And his stoking of class resentments by pretending that prosperity is a zero sum game in which if someone makes a bunch of money, they are stealing it from those who make less, is incorrect and immoral. Of course, we all view history through a lens of how we think things should be, but we do not have the ability to know how they would otherwise have been had people done things differently. The best we can do is try to understand human nature and do our best to predict based upon what has been done in the past--and that requires looking at the results as objectively as possible.

[@Daymjo]

@@LovingLiberty76 Your entire comment was hilariously off based, but this bit: ' the U.S. (and the West in general) "colonized" other countries to take their resources ignores the fact that "colonizers" always poured in more money (infrastructure, etc.) than they extracted' is absolutely deranged :D

[@EmperorsNewWardrobe]

Whenever Sowell speaks, I find myself lingering on his every word

[@JoBlakeLisbon]

The one good thing about Chomksy as an old man is that people are realising he was playing this con-game all the way alone.

[@AndySmith-lq2di]

Chomsky let his mask slip with that comment on Jordan Petersen.

[@kicksomeup6998]

What mask? Petersen is a foreign adversary funded by the subversive Koch brothers.

[@dutchchessbetterthancheese1239]

Once i admired Chomsky and now i realize he is a scumbag

[@chrisw9534]

@@kicksomeup6998 You're not a smart person.

[@gregoriosamsa2722]

@@kicksomeup6998 Funded by the Koch brothers? Hahahahahahahha

[@natejennings5884]

Chomsky may as well just wore a shirt saying, "I parrot far Left talking points".

[@melchiormeares114]

I have never been able to see why Noam Chomsky is so liked.

[@audience2]

He's articulate in attacking United States and there's a large and enthusiastic audience for that.

[@barakesmith-washington6946]

Have you read any of his books?

[@Supernautiloid]

Probably because he says things that are true.

[@barakesmith-washington6946]

@O Car casual anti-semitism! and towards one of the most unpopular members of the Jewish community among israelis

[@mck1972]

@@barakesmith-washington6946 and Supernautiloid, I have read Chomsky's books, and he merely recites selected data in order to support his own biased conclusions, about fields that he has never actually worked in himself-Which is everything outside Linguistics! Which makes Chomsky hero to those who have no idea WTF they are talking about! :-)

[@GangdangleOfficialChannel]

Gnome Chomsky actually considers Lenin to be "right-wing"

[@yurib7067]

Thomas sowell, Glenn Loury, Walter E Williams, Coleman Houghs, John Mcwhorter… these ore some names of black intellectuals that are out in the world seeking and delivering truth. Support them!

[@mobdole]

don't forget Candace Owens!

[@low_vibration]

@@mobdole she's a partisan, those guys are intellectuals

[@mobdole]

@@low_vibration well they make the same moronic arguments

[@KittredgeRitter]

No thanks.

[@unknowninfinium4353]

Thanks for the recommendations.

[@beefcakepantiehoes]

Chomsky is someone who makes you think, conservatives and people like Sowell tell you what you SHOULD think.

[@surfersilver6610]

You are incorrect in your assessment and presentation. Conservatives and people like MR. Sowell present PROVEN TANGIBLE FACTS with their conclusions on subjects. If you look at 2+2=4 then say "Chomsky says that's mathematical control & tyranny, make your own system and answers!" then you're doing what he said or what he told you what you SHOULD think, contrary to PROVEN RESULTS. That's just Luciferin thought, thinking you are greater than God(truth). The fact he said the Right controls schools shows he's a manipulative destroyer(Satanic), not a high intellectual.

[@jeanettecameron7530]

Oh, please. He is merely an expert at Alinsky- speak, like Obama, Nuland and all the rest of the Constitution hating communists.

[@junkscience6397]

Haha! Hilarious! Yes, 10,000 college students mindlessly quoting Chomsky at each other inside their cozy echo chambers...what "thoughts" are going on in our colleges these days! You're delusional.

[@Rojayzee]

😂 wrong

[@jackspencer8290]

"In fact, universities are dominated by the right." That's what Noam Chomsky said, just a few years ago. Remember the complete and utter absurdity of this statement whenever you hear Chomsky say anything.

[@BillHimmel]

Chomsky is a the perfect example of an once great, if not towering thinker, who just lost it with time and old age! Sad, truly, and a warning to all!

[@PWizz91]

Chomsky means more to the kids in university than Sowell… I can’t wrap my head around how this is to be..

[@stevenwintersnight1036]

Nepatism my dude. His kind promote eachother

[@ВадимВадимович-ь6т]

@@stevenwintersnight1036 imagine thinking Chomsky, who was silenced several times by mainstream media, is practicing nepotism. Cuckservatives really don't like hearing the truth

[@xgx899]

There is concerted [Neo]Marxist effort to undermine education in the US since 1960's. Now we have the results.

[@I.W.Lthomsson]

The problem is the education system doesn't produce critical thinkers so when an intelligent person gives his views, regardless of their veracity, most viewers adopted those ideas as their own and repeat them as fact.

[@warkosy]

We were taught to think critically in college, granted this was 15 - 20 years ago. We were encouraged to listen to both sides of an argument/issue & in some classes we were even required to debate our peers with opposing viewpoints. Sometimes you had to debate a certain position in class, even if it wasn't your own personal belief.

[@I.W.Lthomsson]

@@warkosy Thankfully my grade 7 teacher used to do critical thinking exercises regularly and those lessons have stuck with me my entire life. It just seems college kids not only won't debate some subjects they want so shut the conversation down, not healthy for our society.

[@zchularoceribfjan]

So it's critical thinking when it results in supporting American supremacy and not critical thinking when it challenges and provokes America - is that it 👁️?

[@michaelanderson2881]

Not an "intelligent" person, but an "articulate" one. Someone like Noam Chomsky can't be considered intelligent when he gets more wrong than he gets right.

[@yowie12]

Mr. Sowell should be one of the most famous and celebrated people in the country.

[@walkermom100]

Yes there should be a statue for him vs mlk.

[@ShurlockHolmes]

Amen!!!!!

[@zvipatent]

Dr. - and I agree

[@iainherridge6253]

WHY , is it cause he sez what white people like to hear validating their biases?

[@zvipatent]

@@iainherridge6253 I am biased to believe that Black people can do anything that White people can do - like Tom Sowell

[@georgefspicka5483]

What I notice about Chomsky, is his denial of communist atrocities. He'll criticize capitalism while saying nothing about socialism. Orwell wrote about this tendency in his essay, "Notes On Nationalism.

[@mattblack118]

If Noam Chomsky just stayed in linguistics he would have done the world a huge favour.

[@StillAliveAndKicking_]

And ironically his linguistics theories have turned out to be completely wrong.

[@mattblack118]

@@StillAliveAndKicking_ I have never read any of his linguistic research and don't plan to.

[@DrCitrixmeister]

Dr. Sowell is so brilliant, that every time I listen to him, my ideas are challenged.

[@MonkeyDIvan]

It's not hard to challenge your own ideas when you're on the right. People on the left have ease staying consistent, you people always jump from one topic to the other. Maybe that explains it;)

[@mitchjames9350]

@@MonkeyDIvan nah that isn’t it.

[@Marshallgill]

@@MonkeyDIvan HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Now that was funny! Tell the truth, you are a professional comedian.

[@klaus2913]

The need to be "correct" is the sign of a vulgar mind. It shows that the person is not that intelligent as he or she thinks he is and gives the impression that someone is consumed by their own rigid ideologies, nor does it show you are open-minded, which is a sign of true intelligence. As any great philosopher would tell you: I know nothing. Read more, be it philosophy, psychology (temperament decides your political affiliation more often than not), because you are truly an arrogant creature. Maybe also lean towards Laozi and his teachings, because it is obvious you have much to learn and you are formed by opinions that you take to be your own. As soon as you open your mouth, you will be to stupid to scream.

[@coolmarkyt]

I don't know how anyone listen to what he said here and conclude he's brilliant.That statement about interwar re-armament is so absurdly simplistic it doesn't even make sense.

[@bobthebuilder9553]

Sowell is a national treasure to me. Wish he had been a history teacher at the state college I went to. I never get tired of listening and learning from him!

[@k.k.9011]

I agree! He really makes me feel superior because of my white skin. I wish they made more negroes like this today. 😁

[@warkosy]

He's an economist, not a historian. Ironic, given that Sowell disparages Chomsky for speaking out on political issues as a linguist. I guess Sowell is a hypocrite every time he speaks on a subject not related to economics, since he's not an expert in those fields.

[@sixmillionaccountssilenced6721]

@@warkosy He pretends to understand economy. -fixed Sowell is an example of a guy stucked in his own lies about american exceptionalism, one of the most dangerous religions ever...

[@jladdyost]

Deserves a Presidential Medal of Freedom, which he will under a Democrat President.

[@dennissilber287]

He’s not an historian. He’s an economist.

[@basswars7060]

The end product of Thomas Sowell are his countless curious and hopeful students. We love him and he is one of the best teachers we will ever have.

[@juancpgo]

Noam Chomsky has such a strong hatred of hierarchies of any kind, that anybody who says anything even ambiguous about hierarchy is seen by him in the rightmost end of the spectrum. I think he's a brilliant guy though, I would love to see a respectful debate between him and Jordan Peterson. But sometimes he seems so intolerant that I wonder whether he'd be capable of holding himself in such debate.

[@marcellorudofsky3633]

Jordan Peterson is just another youtube grifter, he doesn’t deserve the chance to debate a man as brilliant as Chomsky. Besides, Chomsky is getting old, we’ve gotta make sure he doesn’t waste his time talking to Kermit lobster dad

[@ogzombieblunt4626]

@@marcellorudofsky3633 'Everyone who disagrees with me is a grifter'

[@tookie36]

@@ogzombieblunt4626 yes but some people are grifters....

[@PanfishingJournal]

Lol. Chomsky wouldn't debate because he would get creamed. Every person I know who thought Chomsky was "brilliant" wasn't smart enough to understand what he was saying. Then, they hear him moan and groan for an hour and use a bunch of language that makes him sound really smart. They usually were people who thought they were smarter than they really were, potheads that took cake walk courses in college, and usually born with a silver spoon in their mouths.

[@tookie36]

@@PanfishingJournal gta love all your specifics. Typical Chomsky troll

[@georgejones3104]

I find intellectuals are long on literature and short on common sense they love self praise

[@mck1972]

Well Stated!

[@dustywaxhead]

More people can benefit from reading classic literature and not the processed pink slime that comes out the can known as TV

[@pebblepod30]

JBP at least is a Clinical Psychologist, which means dealing with real things & their results.

[@roxannehale1386]

And sowell us full of self praise.

[@gyozakeynsianism]

Which "intellectuals" are those? What is an "intellectual"?

[@ИванИвановИванович-т1ф]

Observe the irony in the first clip of Chomsky talking. It's comedy that writes itself.

[@Supernautiloid]

I observed a man telling the truth about universities. What did you see?

[@mck1972]

@@Supernautiloid , I observed an old radical leftist, telling what He Thinks is the truth about universities, based on his own biased, skewed, paradigm, which is actually more of a tragedy than a comedy.

[@Supernautiloid]

@@mck1972 If you think acknowledging reason, logic, and evidence is an example of a "skewed bias", then you might be beyond help. Sorry.

[@mck1972]

@@Supernautiloid, And if You Think that Chomsky's history of merely reciting selected data, with the luxury of exploiting Hindsight, about fields that he has never had the guts to actually work in himself, constitutes, ' reason, logic, and evidence ', then you are definitely beyond help! SMH

[@Supernautiloid]

@@mck1972 Reciting selected data? Do mean...saying things that are true? If you dismiss the idea of empirical evidence and verifiable facts, then how do you determine what is true and what isn't?

[@Unpainted_Huffhines]

I don't know how anyone takes anything else Chompsky say seriously when he says universities are dominated by the right.

[@NathanSmutz]

They should have stopped when he supported the Soviet Union, Mao, and the Kmer Rouge killing fields.

[@Unpainted_Huffhines]

That wasn't _real_ communism.

[@NathanSmutz]

@@Unpainted_HuffhinesThe realness of communism is inversely proportional to how much it embarrasses the guy who was cheering it last year.😜

[@Marshallgill]

Intellectual dishonesty.

[@ah5308]

Chomsky did write about Manufactured Consent back in the 80's, and I watched that whole scheme of govt, media and corporations socially engineering consent for the covid vaccines.

[@cjwhite2631]

This is true

[@nuckygulliver9607]

he's a hypocrite that called for starving people that do not consent

[@HondoTrailside]

That is a good catch. That is a theoretical contribution of his in politics, and it has some comparison to his linguistics, superficially. The idea being that there is no central controls, or pupeteers, but we natively respond to the structure and align ourselves with the main interests. So you don't need to tell a CNN reporter what to say, he picks it up in the environment. Just as we don't need to hammer language into a kid, it flows from his wiring and the environment. I think that is now outdated, or at least not the dominant form of control. High tech makes direct coercive control easier and more efficient. Or so they believe.

[@sloaiza81]

Exactly. Nobody is perfect, but Chomsky has much more good than bad.

[@lorefox201]

and gay marriage, and trans rights, and climate change.

[@sillynelson1]

If Jordan Peterson is far-right than Noam is basically Stalin.

[@cango5679]

I don't see him as left nor right. He is Human. One of the best thing the US of A has put forth.

[@sillynelson1]

@@cango5679 Who? Noam or Jordan

[@cango5679]

@@sillynelson1 Noam of course...

[@sillynelson1]

@@cango5679 I’d say the same about Jordan

[@cango5679]

@@sillynelson1 fair enough

[@johnpatrick3718]

Thank you, Mr. Sowell.

[@t-bo-lesotho]

Did Noam Chomsky criticize the Vietnam War or American involvement in the war? North Vietnam created that war by attempting to forcibly merge with South Vietnam into a single, communist-led state.

[@JadeoftheGlade]

Back in high school debate, we'd quote Chomsky as if he were God.

[@michaelhauser6440]

Lol

[@kirklaird5020]

And some people never progress beyond the idolization of people they are told to idolize.

[@adeceptikon]

He is god😏, none of these "thinkers" have the guts to call themselves a scientist. These talkers have contributed nothing to humanity. Same old shit.

[@gyozakeynsianism]

What bizarre high school did you go to?

[@auturgicflosculator2183]

So...as if he were a fictional character? :P~

[@ribusgan]

"Thomas Sowell (/soʊl/ SOHL; born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, author, and social commentator who is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution." That is, kind of a definition of an intellectual!

[@eg4933]

The world's affair with elitist and sociopaths is book waiting to be written lol. Thomas sowell is truly a treasure.

[@adamguerrero5293]

Sowell is a more-on

[@Jominycrocket0]

@@adamguerrero5293 He wishes he has Chomsky’s brain. Chomsky is the writer of blueprints. It’s up to social engineers to make the changes

[@colts8146]

The fact that chomsky thinks the universities are dominated by the right is so far into absurdity I genuinely question his sanity. Either he is so steeped in ideological possession So deep it would make the likes of Hitler and Lenin laugh or he is so willfully blind Helen Keller would think he's blind in comparison. The only other option is he's utterly senile

[@joecombs7468]

Chomsky is so far on the left, that by his own words, he views Karl Marx as being on the right.

[@TJ-kk5zf]

Chomsky hasn't a clue about Peterson

[@nickjnow1]

The red flag for me is the publishing 100+ plus books. During my PhD work the effort required to accurately test, measure and understand results for one experiment took years of work and that was is in a very narrow field. It's inconceivable that he done the due diligence required to support his many theses.

[@MassDefibrillator]

It seems you misunderstood. Pinker specifically says 100+ books in politics, not his scientific work. His scientific work is much more focused and less lengthy in terms of pages. Furthermore, Chomsky is probably the biggest workaholic I've ever heard of. Furthermore, he is literally 90 years old. Workaholic plus 90 years old means he's going to have put out a lot of work.

[@aradicalkiwi806]

Yeah a lot of Chomsky’s books, and he points this out and states really it isn’t as nearly as impressive as publishers make it out to be, are just compilations of his speeches and interviews. The number of books he’s actually sat down and written are far fewer.

[@foryourspirit3995]

@Mitthenstein Hilarious. The only one who respects Noam Chomsky is one of the four kinds of leftists. I’m curious, which are you? The four kinds of leftists: 1. Student - naïve, gullible, inexperienced ingénue and willingly being indoctrinated like an empty hard drive on a computer ready for software. 2. Teacher - elitist, ignorant, narcissistic, bitter, idealistic, indoctrinater and spreading it as far as they can activist teach. 3. Burnout - The over the hill radical who never gave up the fight or grew up. Bitter, angry, and amounted to nothing in life crying “Everyone’s a victim,” as their blame for everything. 4. Champagne socialist- Too much time on their hands. They have a lot of money which they think gives them the right and a platform for changing the system that gave them the money. Typically, they didn’t earn it on their own, but are trust funders or inherited in it someway, possibly married money. They consider activism work, espousing change, but never consider their political, economic and philosophical views resulted in 50-100 million deaths in the last century.

[@nuckygulliver9607]

@Mitthenstein Chimpsky advocated starving people that didn't consent to big pharma. He's not smart enough to understand practical applications of consent. He's anti liberal. All modern people on the left are because they are in favour of corporations and government controlling information. Anyone that supported mandates can't call themselves liberals anymore. They are the authoritarian left

[@jazztheglass6139]

He's only written 3 books. He's recycled, reformatted, republished the contents from those 3 books. Pretty good business. I've read a lot of chomsky. At some point you realise it's a groundhog experience. He has no practical application in the real world. He's all academic theory.

[@MarkJohnson-dr4ws]

Chomsky is an example of an intellectual who because he as nothing to offer but diatribe and the need to be heard now finds himself alone and ignored. A bitter and sad irrelevance.

[@perkyporkpie]

The trouble with Mr Chomsky has always been that he has no experiential understanding of the world so outside of Linguistics he is simply ridiculous

[@bbiermanster]

Chomsky is ridiculous to linguistic researchers that study in the bush. "The Kingdom of Speech" is a good book that makes the point.

[@VolksdeutscheSS]

I agree. This criticism could probably be applied to most American academicians: very isolated from the "real/practical" world.

[@VolksdeutscheSS]

@Miranda Tate I agree, Miranda: Chomsky's criticism of American and Israel is spot-on. However, it doesn't take a Ph.D. to come to the conclusion that America and Israel behave in criminal manner.

[@philodonoghue3062]

1. Can we stop confusing intellectuals who include genuine scholars with (mere) academics. Sowell is a scholar ie above and beyond academic and is an excellent example, and exemplar, of an intellectual. 2. I studied linguistics at university and Chomsky is undoubtedly the genius of 20th century linguistics. 3. This does not make him however confer on him expertise in other fields - as with many Hollywood stars, or media celebrities etc., whose opinions are usually of no less weight than many others who are well informed eg followers of Sowell and Peterson (and his guest interviewees).

[@76verdee]

Thomas Sowell once described people like Chomsky perfectly in one quote. He said the more degrees a person has the more likely they are of getting things wrong. What happens is their degrees go to their head and they start thinking they know whats best in everything and they start making decisions in things outside of their fields. He had given many examples but the only one I remember had to do with the Vietnam War.

[@negativezero3107]

i could listen to Dr Sowell 24/7

[@ARod-br2ui]

Reading a Thomas Sowell book and a cup of coffee. My favorite thing to do. I recently told my daughter, every day I’m not reading a Thomas Sowell book, is a day dumber I become.

[@ReapermanUK]

@@ARod-br2ui wrong way round, the more you read that drivel the dumber your becoming

[@MultiBmorgan]

More people should know who Noam Chomsky is. What you have accomplished here with your attempt at lessoning what he has always held firm on is just that. Thank you for your support. It doesn't matter how they know your name its that they do. Noam Chomsky is one person people should listen to and read.

[@CatAtomic99]

I like how he calls him "Nom Chomsky".

[@Daniel_Lancelin]

Chompsky lol

[@JulienSorelEatsSabras]

Gnome Chimpsky@@Daniel_Lancelin

[@johanntheking1234]

There was nothing in this video that remotely criticized Chomsky.

[@ВадимВадимович-ь6т]

Only cuckservatives in the comments hating Chomsky due to being ''anti american''

[@dpg227]

Thomas Sowell is also an intellectual whose end product is ideas.

[@Jebusankel]

Even moreso that Chomsky whose linguistic ideas are at least tested by peer review.

[@cragjones1799]

mostly bad ones, but some good..

[@marycandullo526]

And I believe he would agree with your statement.

[@shadeburst]

Meanwhile back at the ranch, Chomsky's much-vaunted transformational theory has been rendered completely obsolete by computer science: a double failure.

[@stevenvater8720]

Sowell is a world treasure

[@TheLukeStein]

Wow. Sowell finally said Chomsky in the last 3 seconds. Did Pinker say anything except describe Chomsky's theories and why we shouldn't adhere to eponymized ideologies? What point are you trying to make here?

[@LoriNeuro]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed this...

[@mattahough]

That Chomsky is a fraud, and knows little about politics and less about economics.

[@lucasstein3906]

@@mattahough A fraud about what?

[@mattahough]

@@lucasstein3906 About all things political. Don't know how much you've followed Mr. Chomsky's political commentary over the years but he's not shy about expressing his views; most of which are simply wrong. He selectively quotes history & stats that support his theories but ignores data/history/basic economics that contradict it. Chavez used one of his books, Hegemony or Survival, as a basis for implementing socialism in Venezuela and when it crashed Chomsky blamed capitalism. Things like this. IMO this video is pointing out that Chomsky's brilliance in linguistics does not equate to brilliance in all fields.

[@Xasew]

Unlike some are claiming, Sowell most certainly does NOT defend the Vietnam war in this clip.

[@ThomasSowellTV]

Good observation. Thank you sir.

[@njm2699]

He’s defended it in other clips, I think that’s why they r bringing it up. I think they r bringing it up also bc of the contrary positions that Chomsky and Sowell hold, as Chomsky seems to have a better grasp on understanding of foreign policy issues and their effect on the economies and lives of other nations (as well as our own), and u compare that w Sowell’s relatively limited and almost questionable position that the Vietnam war was in away shape or form justified.

[@gyozakeynsianism]

He's claiming that the US could have won the war but for the "intellectuals". Not only is that a nutty argument little better than a conspiracy theory, but it's completely backwards. The Johnson Administration already knew the war was unwinnable, but continued to fight anyway. You can tell yourself all about the wisdom of Sowell's words here, but it's not just there.

[@fondrees]

@@njm2699 did u even pay attention to what Sowell said. He starts (in the previous video, giving a few examples of how and why soft (b.a. versus b.s.) intellectuals always get it wrong on foreign policy. The product they produce is ideas, which rarely get field tested, therefore cant be proven wrong. Your take on this, shows a rather limited understanding of history , foreign policy and Sowells views. The vietnam war and the Tet offensive is the perfect example of how soft intellectuals on college campuses and soft professionals (again, b a.'s vs. B.s.'s like chomsky) in the media got it all wrong regarding the tet offensive which was a huge military defeat for the vietcong, but a huge Public relations victory (cuz they wrongly said we lost) thanks to the agenda driven liberal media, which is a guarantee of defeat in any democracy. BTW, the war in vietnam was very much justified and served its purpose. We could've and should've fought to win, but the 12 year war stopped the communist chinese expansion it its tracks. Were it not for the sacrifices of our 50,000 soldiers. China would have gobbled up All those tiny asian counties and beyond with no resistance. We would be living in a very different world had that happened. Our surrender in 75 brought a horrible genocide in s.vietnam, as well as Cambodia etc. 3 Million Cambodian lives and millions more in S. Vietnam and surrounding countries. I think protecting those lives (for 12 years at least) MORE than justifies our efforts. The only shame is the same shame Biden has now reenacted in Afghanistan. Pulling out after twenty years of peacekeeping with virtually no loss of life. Yet we bail like scared rabbits leaving behind 85 billion in state of the art military equipment, (which the Taliban is selling to IRA bv to use against our allies). Another win/ win for the enemies of democracy and America, courtesy of Noams soft headed ideas.

[@darylfoster7944]

@@fondrees your rationale for Vietnam is the same communist domino theory that was pushed by warmongers for decades.

[@RogerKM]

Steven Pinker, like most people, is completely ignorant about Ayn Rand and objectivism. She was not an anarchist. In fact, her entire political philosophy emphasizes the absolute necessity of government for its one and only function - protection of individual rights. She was also not a right winger/conservative, or libertarian. She spoke against both just as much as she spoke/wrote against the left. Ayn Rand’s ideas were among the best of all philosophers and thinkers this country has ever had. Too bad even our best intellectuals don’t know the first thing about objectivism.

[@theusher2893]

I'm glad they mentioned Tet. We absolutely destroyed the VC, and had them on the ropes, when the American left snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

[@C_R_O_M________]

Disarmament is like removing thorns from a rose and call it “wisdom”.

[@adameikenberry6296]

We are all liberal minded and conservative minded at the same time. Individuals very on the ratio of that, but that’s elementary

[@joshkooga7204]

Best comment here..

[@PegasusTenma1]

Probably the most intelligent comment here

[@WittyUsernamehere]

Exactly. There is far more overlap between the left and the right than most people would care to admit or acknowledge.

[@williamhagen2792]

Sowell's definition of an intellectual provides such people with credibility they do not deserve.

[@jameswright6886]

The tet offensive was a tactical loss for the vietnamese,but it was a strategic victory for them.

[@phoenix21studios]

why

[@phreemynd]

Only because the American press had fallen for the communist propaganda and aided the enemy in their strategy by assisting with the spread of that propaganda to the vacuous population.

[@alanmcbride6658]

American forces were pulled from the countryside into the cities. Ceding the countryside to Vietnamese insurgents.

[@hariseldon3786]

It's easy to say such things as Chomsky says, when there are no consequences - for them.

[@mck1972]

Well don't forget all the millions Chomsky himself has made from his books & lectures criticizing everyone else! :-)

[@hariseldon3786]

@@mck1972 No -say it's not so...

[@gyozakeynsianism]

It's not about consequences. It's about ideology so twisted that they can't even accept obvious facts and well accepted definitions. But Sowell is perfectly guilty of this too. See how he butchers Vietnam War history, completely ignoring the Pentagon Papers.

[@derrickmcadoo3804]

You throw enough boiled spaghetti at a wall for 30 years, some of it will stick.

[@destroya3303]

And the same goes for neo-cons saying we should have stayed in Vietnam. None of them saw combat.

[@AlexDeLarge77]

Chomsky is engaging in the perfect illustration of double talk. When he said universities are dominated by the right I literally burst out laughing. If Chomsky actually believes this then people should cease to take him seriously. Peterson isn’t either of the left or the right. He isn’t a slave to ideology. He is an empiricist at heart. He doesn’t engage in cheap shot propaganda to tarnish people’s reputations either.

[@ЦветанГанчев-у4п]

The fact that you write "Peterson isn’t either of the left or the right" made me burst out laughing as well. I don't know what you're rambling about college being not right wing, since capitalism is the default mode for every university in the west. But claiming JP is "not ideological" is insane. Peterson declares a big chunk of his lectures on shi*ting on communism, although the only left-wing book that he read was "The Communist Manifesto" (as he admitted), a 40 page pamphlet made for people who don't read often, I dunno why he didn't read Das Kapital at least. And he read it while he was preparing for debate, so I don't know what tf he knows about politics or economics, but he sure as hell makes 200 lectures on Gulags and how bad it was because of communism and communism never worked, and I don't see him either understanding politics to know that the USSR was not a communist country, or blaming Afghanistan, Indonesia, Syria, Latin America, and pretty much the millions of killings by capitalistic countries like the US, on capitalism. I don't see how he isn't a slave to ideology while he constantly talks about the Soviet Union, but never mentions the geno*ides byt US supported dictators in Guatemala, Chile, Indonesia, Argentina and so on, it doesn't make sense

[@MassDefibrillator]

> dominated by the right The university structure is one that mirrors profiteering corporations. That's what Chomsky means. Universities are structures built around embodying a reproducing the neoliberal agenda, and wokism is just the left wing of the neoliberal agenda, which isn't left wing at all.

[@SeosamhMacUaid]

the sooner Noam Chomsky pops his clogs the better, on the other hand the world will be worst off when Thomas Sowell passes.

[@rockhard2654]

chomsky should keep attacking peterson that alone with take care of chomsky

[@paulg1985]

Jordan Peterson is addicted to prescription drugs and writes books which are vague, meandering with a questionable subtext. Chomsky on the other hand has never been on drugs and writes books which are concise and always sights the sources of the data he used as reference. Chomsky's books inform, Peterson books are written to make him money.

[@guitardeez]

@@paulg1985 No, Peterson is not a sell out been speaking the same ideas before he became famous.

[@spitxfire99]

@@paulg1985 Outside of linguistics, Chomsky is about as informative as any other leftist dolt. Peterson had actually helped people in their lives personally. More than Chomsky has done, that's for sure.

[@paulg1985]

@@guitardeez Have you read "The Intellectual We Deserve" by Nathan J. Robinson? Very insightful.

[@guitardeez]

@@paulg1985 I will take a look on amazon, I have not.

[@lolopololoca]

Noam chomsky is dissapointing me more as the years go by...

[@MultiWalrus1]

Oh boo hoo! I'm sure he'd be devastated to hear that.

[@leonidas480bc]

I love this man! He is brilliant!

[@mu99ins]

I attended a Chomsky lecture at UCSC in the mid-1970s. It was about 2 weeks after I had read an article by a French journalist about newspaper articles from Spanish American countries. He compared several articles by Hispanics news sources about the same incident, showing they were all slanted and not to be believed. Chompsky based the topic of his anti-American speech that evening, on articles which he quoted, all from Spanish American news sources. I sat there, probably the only person in that audience, wondering how naive such an intelligent man could be, to accept news from Spanish American newspapers. The answer is that Chompsky is a believer in his anti-American stance, and so he takes for truth the news articles that support his belief.

[@MrSpartanspud]

You know, I don't actually really have any idea what Atilla the Hun's social or economic stances were now that I think about it.

[@davidweihe6052]

My Need gives me the Right. Also, Death To The Merkits.

[@Moribus_Artibus]

The Huns were practically a nomadic plunder state

[@_TeaMaster]

something about cleaning his room to start the world conquest, I presume.

[@finlaymcdiarmid5832]

Before capitalism or communism or even socialism? i guess he was a bad person so that makes him right wing to chommer.

[@AfrikanLifestyle]

He speaks the truth... The same can be said of him. As an intellectual, he has produced nothing but books. No matter what the books produce as a result of reading, he will bear no responsibility or consequences.

[@sababaratashvili8629]

The difference is he produced books in subjects he's great at. And any person who claims academia is right and not left is just deluded or a liar. There is no inbetween.

[@oldegrunt]

@@sababaratashvili8629 The difference is that Sowell enlightens and Chomsky muddies people viewpoints on critical issues.

[@wescolumbus621]

Sowell's brightest idea was to leave the Academy, which has become depleted of perspective, sense of proportion and filled, instead, with sheltered, opportunist profs like Chomsky and Said.

[@b.alexanderjohnstone9774]

I learnt a new word recently. Ultracrepidarian, Chomsky came instantly to mind. Then Paul Krugman.

[@markpaul1383]

Funny how the guy who gave us universal grammar doesn't know the meaning of some commonly used English words.

[@ip-sum]

What's liberal mean?

[@VincitOmniaVeritas7]

Chomsky comparing JBP to Attila reminds me of an anecdote: the founder / chief editor of the most (in)famous leftist magazine in my country called Stalin a RIGHT-WINGER because he was authoritarian. That’s how far they are willing to lie to others and themselves to twist the reality to fit their ideology.

[@LazlosPlane]

Poor Noam. My intellectual hero for 30 years, has completely snapped his gourd. I can't tell whether he has been "gotten to" or if he's just gone mad. So sad.

[@davidweihe6052]

Thirty years ago, he had left linguistics behind and moved into his major field of "Everything Britain, Israel, or the USA Did or Does is Wrong, Because I Say So".

[@panoskatrin4910]

@@davidweihe6052 u haven't spent a single minute trying to understand what he is talking about ,"its wrong because I said so" britain and the usa have continuously supported dictatorships and still do,had military interventions, destroyed any progress for worker rights in their own countries especially the us while Israel has countless human rights violations against the palestinian people "because I said so" havent even taken 5 minutes of ur life trying to understand whats happening in the world

[@adamsmith3413]

He was a imbecile thirty years ago.

[@LazlosPlane]

@@adamsmith3413 That's just a damn stupid remark. You obviously never read a word he wrote in any of his books. You couldn't UNDERSTAND any of his books. You're just a jerk. Go away.

[@LazlosPlane]

Imbecile? That's funny.