Too lazy to go digging, but it's like the guy has never heard of smiling and nodding and being polite...especially if you want things from the other person.
This also gets at the question of what is and isn't exculpatory. Like, so what if he did actually find the guy intelligent and an intellectually stimulating interlocutor, if he knew what he was up to? (Thinking, ofc, of the inclination on both left and right to launder the sins of victims of violent crime to make them "worthy" martyrs when the point is the person should just not have died that way.)
An underrated fact about Noam Chomsky is that he answers all his email. I could email him and he’d respond. Clearly being polite to people is something that matters to him.
Yeah he seems like a genuinely well intentioned dude even when I viciously hate what he’s saying. My assumption is that his association w/ Epstein shows a weakness of character more than anything else, but tbf I have not read super deeply on this situation.
Appreciate the overview. I wish there was a way to beam in just the factual info from the Epstein files to my head since I neither want to go through them myself nor trust many people to give an accurate reading. Was sad when I heard Chomskys name come up, but I’m happy to hear his biggest crime may have been reflexive pandering.
I will clarify that I have not dug through them either (tho more just bc I don’t have the time) - I’ve just clicked thru to read the emails I’ve seen discussed 😭
But, I haven’t *seen* anyone concretely accuse him of anything worse than being sincere in his interactions with Epstein (which I dispute).
Too lazy to go digging, but it's like the guy has never heard of smiling and nodding and being polite...especially if you want things from the other person.
This also gets at the question of what is and isn't exculpatory. Like, so what if he did actually find the guy intelligent and an intellectually stimulating interlocutor, if he knew what he was up to? (Thinking, ofc, of the inclination on both left and right to launder the sins of victims of violent crime to make them "worthy" martyrs when the point is the person should just not have died that way.)
An underrated fact about Noam Chomsky is that he answers all his email. I could email him and he’d respond. Clearly being polite to people is something that matters to him.
Yeah he seems like a genuinely well intentioned dude even when I viciously hate what he’s saying. My assumption is that his association w/ Epstein shows a weakness of character more than anything else, but tbf I have not read super deeply on this situation.
Yes, also makes your interpretation of him just being nice in his assessment of Epstein’s experiment more plausible.
Appreciate the overview. I wish there was a way to beam in just the factual info from the Epstein files to my head since I neither want to go through them myself nor trust many people to give an accurate reading. Was sad when I heard Chomskys name come up, but I’m happy to hear his biggest crime may have been reflexive pandering.
I will clarify that I have not dug through them either (tho more just bc I don’t have the time) - I’ve just clicked thru to read the emails I’ve seen discussed 😭
But, I haven’t *seen* anyone concretely accuse him of anything worse than being sincere in his interactions with Epstein (which I dispute).
I’m glad you found the post helpful!