Noam Chomsky on Identity Politics, Free Speech, and China
The Good Fight
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What Are the Principles That Should Guide Life?
There's no halgarithm for those things. You have to think it through, reflect and challenge your own beliefs. There are some general guide lines, but most of the work is in sympathetic understanding. Do we want to understand where our wealth comes from? The most hideous system of slavery in human history? Member cotton was the oil of the nineteenth century. Take a look atthe wealth of blacks and whites take a look at the conditions in which they live. All of that is the legacy of a hideous system of oppression. How do you feel about the role of neutral principles that, historically, i haven't been mutually applied? That's up to each of us to decide.
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