Noam Chomsky on Identity Politics, Free Speech, and China
The Good Fight
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What Is the Moral and the Principled Way of Standing Up for the Powerless?
You hade a famus debate with michel foucot. I wonder how you feel about that debate a few decades later. The main memory i have, what struck me most of the debate, was that i had never seen such an ammoral, not immoral, amoral person in my life. There were no questions of right or wrong, just a question who gats power. So to day, there's also a lot of attention to questions of who has power. But what is the moral and principled way of standing up for those who are powerless, without becoming immoral in that way? Plenty of ways of doing it. Civil rights movement did it very effectively. Any war movement did
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