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Originally Posted by rubecube
Yeah, I have, and I think you're still missing the point. Do you think the legacies of colonialism and U.S. foreign policy have not had profound effects on the developing nations and their indigenous peoples? I'm really not sure how reminding people of historical context is dogmatic or extremist. And reducing the sum of Chomsky's intellectual career in such a manner is about as intellectually lazy and dishonest as it gets, and I'm hardly a massive Chomsky fan.
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Looking only at the good the U.S. has done and saying it's your duty to support your country right or wrong = dogmatic nonsense.
Looking only at the bad the U.S. has done and granting the moral high ground to every regime that has ever come into conflict with the U.S. = dogmatic nonsense.
Chomsky and his acolytes are no more nuanced that the uber-patriots they hate. You will never hear them compare the U.S. favourably to any other country, or recognize that the U.S. has done anything good on the international stage since WW2. And they will characterize every bad actor in the world as either a puppet of the U.S. or a blowback from bad U.S. policy. It's the typical conspiracy-theory need to believe in the Ultimate Agent of Oppression, the sinister force that's behind everything.
Taking the opposite stance of people who believe simplistic idiocy is usually just another kind of simplistic idiocy.