Noam Chomsky on Identity Politics, Free Speech, and China
The Good Fight
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Is There a Fundamental Disagreement About the Kind of Society That We Want to Live In?
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.
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