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by csallen 3163 days ago
Absolutely not. But those are not the examples I would point to to show that the media exaggerates our enemy's crimes.
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Don't delude yourself about Chomsky's objectivity. As late as 1969 in debate with William F. Buckley he refused to believe that the Chinese Communists were killing people with failed economic policies and authoritarian crackdowns.[0]

[0] https://youtu.be/vaR-T_hqRSM?t=2793

That doesn't make him wrong about the criticisms he does make.
Right. It calls into question his intellectual honesty and the morality of his intellectual preoccupations. Not to mention the pension he pulls from the MIT endowment which is heavily invested in the military industrial complex he supposedly despises, but not to my knowledge has ever used his clout among the MIT faculty to protest in formal petition.

Must be a nice life.

BUT those are what you just did. You are just as guilty of what you were excusing of others. You just made MAJOR hundreds of millions of people's deaths and called all of these little.
You might want to re-read the post you're criticizing.