Andrew Hagen

Leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky was the subject of the criticism of City Journal back in 2002. Let’s scrutinize a passage listing some of Chomsky’s views. (*)

Here’s a small but representative sample. The goal of America, Chomsky charges, “is a society in which the basic unit is you and your television set. If the kid next door is hungry, it’s not your problem. If the retired couple next door invested their assets badly and are now starving, that’s not your problem either.” Prisons and inner-city schools, Chomsky maintains, “target a kind of superfluous population that there’s no point in educating because there’s nothing for them to do. Because we’re a civilized people, we put them in prison, rather than sending death squads out to murder them.” Another example: “When you come back from the Third World to the West—the U.S. in particular—you are struck by the narrowing of thought and understanding, the limited nature of legitimate discussion, the separation of people from each other.”

Assume that Chomsky speaks absolute truth. American people are savages, brutes.

The only natural conclusion to Chomsky’s thought is that American people are sub-human, or animals, and ultimately that American people deserve nothing less than death.

Chomsky has given the world a warrant for genocide of Americans.

The current poverty of left-of-center thought resides in part in its lack of subtlety. Take it at face value and an absurd conclusion results, such as a warrant for genocide.

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