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It is not looking good for Chomsky
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I mean, compare this to Finkelstein's appearance in the emails where he said that Dersh and Jeffy both deserve to be strangled.
Finkelstein strikes me as the sort of intellectual that will engage in an exchange with almost anyone and yet even he didn't feel it necessary to offer counsel and consolation to Epstein so where does that leave us with regards to our position on Chomsky?
(Also check out recent posts on R*ddit's r/Chomsky to see people running defense for him in realtime)
Finkelstein is actually someone who would still go on about how great Chomsky is and how good of a friend he was. At least that was true as of a few years ago (podcast interviews come to mind, one of them for sure from RevLeft Radio) and I remember thinking how much better overall Finkelstein turned out as a human being compared to Chomsky, even if he never received the kind of recognition or accolades Chomsky did... which of course he didn't, because Finkelstein had integrity and honesty particularly to stand up to Zionists, all but ensuring his career would be constantly pushed towards obscurity, but nor did Finkelstein work as a sheep dog to corral wayward pinkos back towards liberalism like Chomsky. So it was hard to hear Finkelstein gush about Chomsky so much, but I wonder if he is having more thoughts now about how good of a guy Chomsky really was in light of these recent revelations, or even the ones of a few years ago.
Finkelstein does the same about Mearsheimer. I think he respects intellectual honesty and also when he does that he's not saying these people are above criticism, whereas Chomsky straight-up says Epstein needs to be treated like an average person without prejudice like a liberal dumbass.
Finkelstein would rather engage with a Holocaust Denier than Epstein
finklestein debated a guy saying that you can't prove genocide intent even if israel just happens to genocide the palestinians and would still call for the public execution of the epstein class