There is nothing wrong with Porn & Prostitution

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205. OMG. Does Noam never learn from past experience?

Not that I think there's anything wrong with having an interview appear in Hustler, but after the Faurisson debacle you'd think he'd be insisting on seeing transcripts, getting background on what he's contributing to etc. For those unfamiliar with the whole Faurisson thing, he's a Holocaust denier who used without Chomsky's knowledge an essay on free speech that Chomsky had written as the foreward for a book of his. And when asked for comment, Chomsky went into a defence of free speech instead of looking into the background of Faurisson.

To cut a long story short. I'm a massive fan of Chomsky. I've read most of his books and admire him for what he's written on US foreign policy and the I/P conflict. But that doesn't mean I should sit and nod blindly with what he says on other stuff that he's not an expert on. I don't even agree with him on some of the things he says about the I/P conflict, so why should it impress me that he doesn't like porn?

p.s. I hope everyone appreciates the subtle way I've attempted to turn this thread into the current huge issue in GD which has managed to delegate the endless and repetitive porn threads to a very distant back seat in what people are talking about in GD.