Khross wrote:
I may not like Noam Chomsky's politics, but he's a lot smarter than that, DE.
I'm being hyperbolic Khross, obviously, but I haven't ever seen anything from him that doesn't boil down to a laundry list of complaints and hand-wringing. I haven't read anything by him in his primary field regarding grammer, but that's not my field, and it's not what typically receives public attention.
Chomsky is a Philadelphia native and Jewish. I grew up in that area from 6th grade until I went to college. The social studies cirriculum over those years probably spent 20-25% of its time on the Holocaust and related anti-semitism, not to mention at least annual "presentations" ont he subject, including such nonsense as a bunch of germans getting up on the stage, stomping around, and generally lambasting themselves for being German and carrying on about the Nazis as if they were still around to be opposed.
Chomsky, who has commented about supposedly growing up in a Jewish Ghetto in that area, strikes me as someone who has ridden the post-WWII victim status of Jews to fame, despite living in this country his entire life. I found, growing up in that area, that being Jewish meant you were entitled to special consideration for your feelings and views.
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