Happy Birthday: Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

Born: December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Married to: Carol Chomsky (24 December 1949 – 19 December 2008) (her death) (3 children)

The country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority. And so it remains.

Going back years, I am absolutely certain that I’ve taken far more extreme positions on people who deny the Holocaust than you have. For example, you go back to my earliest articles and you will find that I say that even to enter into the arena of debate on the question of whether the Nazis carried out such atrocities is already to lose one’s humanity. So I don’t even think you ought to discuss the issue if you want my opinion. But if anybody wants to refute Faurisson there’s certainly no difficulty in doing so.

[from “Manufacturing Consent”] I do not think that the State ought to have the right to determine historical truths and to punish people who deviate from them. I’m not willing to give the State that right. I’m saying if you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don’t like. I mean, [Joseph Goebbels] was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was [Joseph Stalin]. If you’re in favor of freedom of speech, that means you’re in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise. Otherwise you’re not in favor of freedom of speech.

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