Noam Chomsky Compares Conservative Media To Nazis – With Video

October 16th, 2009 (6) Posted By Erik Wong.

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Mediaite:

Add Noam Chomsky to the growing list of people using the Nazi analogy lately. Speaking to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, he alluded to right-wing media as “substantive content — crazy content, but it does give answers,” and warned that if Americans weren’t properly educated about what was really happening to them, they could be in for a repeat of the Nazi takeover of Germany in the 1930s.

Chomsky, an influential linguist and liberal activist, did give himself some wiggle room — he prefaced his comments by saying “I don’t want to press the analogy too hard,” and later repeated that the analogy wasn’t a perfect one. But it was provocative stuff, and veered into Godwin’s Law territory. Chomsky singled out Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage as dealers of dangerous rhetoric, but he didn’t call out any cablers by name, although they seemed to be swept up in his critique of right-wing media:

The memory that comes to my mind — I don’t want to press the analogy too hard, but I think it’s worth thinking about — is late Weimar Germany. There were people with real grievances, and the Nazis gave them an answer. ‘It’s the fault of the Jews and the Bolsheviks and we’ve got to protect ourselves from them, and that will take care of them.’ And you know what happened…

[...]Germany in the 1920s was at the peak of Western civilization. A decade later, it was at the pits of human history.

Unless an answer can be given to these people, unless they can be led to understand what’s really happening to them, we could be in for trouble.

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  • mike3481

    Wow.

    The fuckin Commie actually figured out who has 99% of all the privately owned firearms in America.

    I might be wrong, but I think he was saying to his Commie buddies, “don’t piss-off these people beyond their breaking point”.

    Hey Comsky, it might already be too late.

  • SgtJenz

    “Chomsky, an influential linguist and liberal activist” and known communist liar.
    Fuck him.

  • TerryTate

    The problem there old Chom, old pal, is that I don’t need Limbaugh, or Savage or someone, say like you, to tell me what is going on. No dear bastard, it’s quite clear that your liberal buds and their compatriots, whether they be left or right, are in fact selling us out. Whether they are using immigration, gays, etc. etc. is not the point, the point is that they are in fact selling us out.

    But I must say thanks for pointing out that it isn’t the gays and immigrants who deserve the retribution, no, it is the traitorous scum, such as yourself and your buds who deserve our undying attention and a stout length of rope tied securely to your skinny little neck as we say goodbye and good riddance.

  • tahDeetz

    Noam Chomsky

    Another Marxist Douchebag trying 2 slough off his Kinsmanship w/ the Nazis_

    nice try_National Socialist

  • Professor Bill

    When is this tired old has been going to die? I only wish he could send us a postcard of what greets him on the other side.

  • lily

    Prof. Chomsky is intellectually dishonest: it is well documented that Weimar Germany was totally occupied and corrupted by Zionists. There was no freedom of speech, no freedom of art. There was no need to “create” an enemy, it was present and robust. And today in equally occupied and corrupted America, Zionists, as they always do, put one group of people against another. They seduce Blacks with the promise of the “ultimate revenge” for the slavery, and they need illigals as another disruptive element in society. The planet would have been enjoying peace now, if not for Zionists, who apparently have no desires or volitions of second order (philosophers call such individuals Wantons). Prof. Chomsky, as a philosopher, among other things, knows this very well.