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197 w/ Glenn Greenwald, Thomas Chatterton Williams "Hypocrisy, Controversy, Cancellations"

The Fifth Column

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Chomsky's Signing Becomes Such a Big Deal

Chomsky: I don't think there was much ideological diversity. There were no Trump supporters, right? The first paragraph declared Trump a kind of overarching evil which made it almost impossible for any Trump supporters to sign on. And one of the reasons why Chomsky's signing became such a big deal is because there weren't very many leftists who had signed on as well. To me, this was kind of a very centrist kind of mainstream status quo defending group of people like George Packer and an Apple bomb.

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