Is There a Fundamental Disagreement About the Kind of Society That We Want to Live In?

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There is a fundamental disagreement about the kind of society that we want to live in. Undoubtedly there is a faction of white supremacy. There's a faction of people who don't want slavery taught. And i suppose i wonder what you think about that, whether you share my concern. So are jews white? Not for long ago, they weren't. Whiteness was a concept that was created. Go back to benjamin franklin,. He thought that we should exclude germans and swedes from the country because they're too swarthy. We've come a long way in some respects, not in others.

Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has for many decades been one of the most prominent critics of U.S. foreign policy.

In this week’s conversation, Noam Chomsky and Yascha Mounk discuss the theory of universal grammar, whether identity politics can be left-wing, and how the world should treat an ascendant China.

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