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paulgadzikowski · 2 months
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nobrashfestivity · 4 months
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“That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.”
Happy Birthday Noam Chomsky
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a-typical · 5 months
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— On Palestine: Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé (2015)
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Noam Chomsky on "Lesser Evilism"
“There’s another word for lesser evilism. It’s called rationality. Lesser evilism is not an illusion, it’s a rational position. But you don’t stop with lesser evilism. You begin with it, to prevent the worst, and then you go on to deal with the fundamental roots of what’s wrong, even with the lesser evils.” [color emphasis added] —Noam Chomsky | Scheer Intelligence podcast | Jan. 17, 2020
Chomsky further explains why it is a rational decision to vote for the lesser to two evils:
"Even if there’s core, deep problems with the institutions, there still are choices between alternatives, which matter a lot. Small differences in a system with enormous power translate into huge effects. Meanwhile, you don’t stop with a lesser evilism; you continue to try to organize and develop the mass popular movements, which will block the worst and change the institutions. All of these things can go on at once. But the simple question of what button do you push on a particular day? That is a decision, and that matters. It’s not the whole story, by any means. It’s a small part of the story, but it matters.” [color emphasis added] ——Noam Chomsky | Scheer Intelligence podcast | Jan. 17, 2020
We witnessed how "small differences in a system with enormous power translate into huge effects" in the first Trump administration, as evidenced by how Trump's decision to stack the Supreme Court with far-right justices has resulted in Roe v. Wade being overturned, the Voting Rights Act being weakened, and the Bruen decision further weakening the nation's ability to control guns.
And Trump did all that damage just in his first term, when he still had "adults" in his administration willing to rein him in.
Imagine what changes to our nation Trump could make with only sycophants in his administration who want to implement Project 2025, just for starters.
Noam Chomsky's message is important to remember as we approach the 2024 election. If you are on the left and choose to sit out the election or vote for a third party because you view Biden as a "lesser evil," you are wittingly or unwittingly supporting the "greater evil" that is Trump. We learned that the hard way in 2016. Please don't let history repeat itself. Our nation could not survive a Trump dictatorship.
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beljar · 2 years
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The last paradox is that the tale of Palestine from the beginning until today is a simple story of colonialism and dispossession, yet the world treats it as a multifaceted and complex story—hard to understand and even harder to solve. Indeed, the story of Palestine has been told before: European settlers coming to a foreign land, settling there, and either committing genocide against or expelling the indigenous people. The Zionists have not invented anything new in this respect.
Noam Chomsky, from On Palestine, March 23, 2015
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liberalsarecool · 10 months
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Republicans radicalized christofascists.
#NoamChomsky #evangelicals
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[This post is a series of images from an infographic by the Slow Factory Foundation originally posted May 2021. The first image is a photo with text over it. The photo shows a massive fireball in the middle of a group of buildings, with a massive black cloud rising from the flames that is bigger than the buildings themselves. The building just behind the fireball is low, rectangular, and lit up bright orange. Behind that building, there is a city lit up at night. Hundreds of buildings stretching into the distance, a thousand glimmering lights.]
What is happening in Palestine is not complicated; it's settler colonialism & ethnic cleansing.
Debunking Misinformation around Palestine.
Myth ❌ Palestine and Israel are in "conflict."
Fact ✅ What is happening in Palestine is settler colonialism, military occupation, land theft and ethnic cleansing. A conflict means there is equal footing, which is not the case. There is an active oppressor (Israel) and an oppressed (Palestine). A colonizer (Israel) and a colonized (Palestine). This is not a conflict.
[Three images of headlines with the word 'conflict' crossed out in red ink.]
Note: According to the Congressional Research Service,
Israeli military occupation has been supported by US aid with $3.8bn a year paid for by U.S. tax dollars since 2016 for the next 10 years.
It's also supported by other colonial countries including Canada, Australia, France and Belgium.
Myth ❌ Before Israel came to Palestine, it was "just a desert" and Israel made the desert green.
Fact ✅ Before the occupation of Israel, Palestine had green, rich and lush land. In fact, Palestine respected the biodiversity of their Indigenous land: Palestinians were producing 92% of Palestine's grain, 99% of its olives and 95% of its melons to name a few.
Since Israel's occupation, biodiversity has decreased. Israel removed Indigenous plants from the land to plant European Invasive species. This phenomenon is called green colonialism, which has been discussed in depth by many, including Naomi Klein in "Let Them Drown."
Myth ❌ Sheikh Jarrah is the only neighborhood in Palestine that is in danger.
Fact ✅ Israel has been gradually stealing Palestinian land, destroying and ethnically cleansing entire Palestinian villages, violently displacing families and building illegal settlements on top them since the first Nakba ('catastrophe' in Arabic) in 1948, where almost 600 Palestinian villages were destroyed, Palestinian history erased and half the Palestinian population were expelled from their homes.
Myth (cont'd.) ❌ Sheikh Jarrah is the only neighborhood in Palestine that is in danger.
Fact ✅ Over the past few decades, the state of Israel has continued the settler colonial project, and Sheikh Jarrah is the latest and not the last neighborhood being violently threatened with dispossession, which Israel has no legal right to do.
[Images of a map showing the drastic decrease in Palestinian landmass from 1946 to 2019. In 1946, Palestine was 99% Palestinian land. In 1947, it decreased to 40%. In 1967, to 30%. And in 2019, less than 20% of Palestine is Palestinian land. The remaining areas are being encroached on by occupied Palestinian land, meaning occupied by Israelis. The rest is Israeli land.]
The mainstream media has been supporting these myths by spreading misinformation that conceal Israel's ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine by saying it's a two-sided conflict, framing Palestinian resistance as terrorism and normalizing the state of Israel.
To learn more about Palestine and the ongoing fight for liberation, follow Palestinian-led organizations, media and frontline activists. [@Instagram / Facebook]
@theimeu / Institute for Middle East Understanding ( IMEU )
@eye.on.palestine
@palestinianyouthmovement / Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)- حركة الشباب الفلسطيني
@jewishvoiceforpeace / Jewish Voice for Peace
@visualizing_palestine / Visualizing Palestine
@wolpalestine [Censored by Meta]
@mohammedelkurd / Mohammed El-Kurd
@muna.elkurd15 / Muna Nabeel Elkurd
@nouraerakat / Noura Erakat
Sources & Suggested Reading
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
Let Them Drown by Naomi Klein
Black Power and Palestine by Michael Fischbach
Orientalism by Edward Said
The Question of Palestine by Edward Said
Palestine by Joe Sacco
"Zionist Logic — Malcolm X on Zionism" in The Egyptian Gazette, Sept. 17, 1964
On Palestine by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé
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Another post for JVP Boston I made and am quite proud of! I may do a sequel if requested because there are so many more great people we could cover:
Judith Butler
Jamie Margolin
Rabbi Alissa Klein
Miriam Margolyes
Avi Shlaim
If you have any more suggestions let me know!
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vyorei · 5 months
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Noam Chomsky on why Palestinians have little to no national support
Source: @DearthOfSid on Twitter
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Noam Chomsky responding to a question from the audience repeating the typical Israeli talking point that supporters of Palestine want to wipe Israel off the map.
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thoughtkick · 7 months
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A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language.
Noam Chomsky
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Blaming the Victims. Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question, Edited by Edward W. Said and Christopher Hitchens, Verso, London and New York, NY, 1988
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Contributors: Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Abu-Lughod, G.W. Bowersock, Noam Chomsky, Norman G. Finkelstein, Muhammad Hallaj, Rashid Khalidi, Peretz Kidron, and Elia Zureik
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linguistness · 7 months
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Language Acquisition - how do children learn languages?
-> the main question is: do children merely imitate in language production? Or do they have an innate knowledge of how language works?
there’s a range of different proposals with different labels, sometimes confusing for newcomers to the field
most of these proposals can be aligned with one of two major theoretical approaches: nativist vs. usage-based
Nativist account also: innatist, generativist, universal grammar (UG) 
Usage-based account also: constructivist, emergentist, socio-pragmatic, functionalist
1. the nativist perspective
main adovcate: Noam Chomsky
main idea: all human languages are based on some innate universal principles
children are biologically programmed for language
environment makes basic contribution (input) and child’s biological endowment will do the rest
humans are born with a special ability to discover the underlying rules of a language
the language faculty: there is a specific faculty of the mind/brain that is responsible for the use and acquisition of language, a faculty with distinctive characteristics that is apparently unique to the species in essentials (Chomsky 1987: 50) -> proposal: humans are equipped with an LAD (language acquisition device), i.e. a black box that exists somewhere in the brain, which contains all and only the principles that are universal to all languages; this proposal was later reformulated and expanded to Universal Grammar (UG) (Chomksy 1959, 1981)
LAD/UG: In a highly idealized picture of language acquisition, UG is taken to be a characterization of children’s prelinguistic initial state and of the language faculty (Chomsky 1981: 7)
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Why assume innate knowledge?
imitation cannot explain all of children’s utterances
children produce utterances they haven’t heard before
characteristic overgeneralisation errors (“I sitted down”)
also: ability to make judgement about what is grammatically possible in a language
Arguments in favour of nativist position
virtually all children learn their native language early in life, even though this is a very complex task; this enables them to recognize linguistic constructions which are possible and not possible in the target language & to produce an infinite number of sentences in the target language
grammatical system of a language is too abstract & complex to be acquired by children without any innate knowledge
UG – key issues
UG does not:
propose that specific language grammars are innate, only the universal architecture for language
deny that other cognitive components are necessary to language acquisition
deny the role of experience; it proposes that abstract linguistic principles interact with experience and allow children to go beyond the limits of actual experience (Lust 2006: 57)
2. Usage-based account
main idea: input is the only source of knowledge
knowledge of language is obtained from the use of language (Langacker 1987)
functionalist account: ‘the forms of natural languages are created, governed, constrained, acquired and used in the service of communicative functions’ (Bates & MacWhinney, 1989: 3), i.e. every utterance serves a function (e.g. requesting, directing, informing)
‘children acquire language first and foremost by understanding how others use language’ (Tomasello, 2009: 86)
Core claims of usage-based account:
no innate knowledge of grammar
language acquisition does not depend on specific learning mechanisms; rather: mixture of general cognitive & social abilities 
child’s understanding of language functions firmly rooted in social act of communication
ability to read and share intentions of others (Tomasello et al. 2005)
children’s communicative skills develop in the first year
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Sources:
Ambridge, B., & Lieven, E. V. (2011). Child language acquisition: Contrasting theoretical approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Berko, Jean (1958). "The Child's Learning of English Morphology". WORD. 14 (2–3): 150–177.
Chomsky , N. (1959). A review of R.B. Skinner‘s Verbal Behavior. Language, 35: 26-58.
Chomsky, N. (1980). Rules and Representations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chomsky, N. (1995). The Minimalist Program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Langacker, R. (1987) Foundations of Cognitive Grammar. Bd. 1. Theoretical Prerequisites. Stanford University Press, Stanford 1987,.
Lust, B. (2006) Child language. Acquisition and growth. Cambridge: CUP.
Rowland, C. (2013). Understanding Child Language Acquisition. 1-311.
Tomasello, M. (2003).Constructing a language: A usage-based theory of language acquisition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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