Chomsky on ‘Sniper,’ Hebdo and Terrorism (and What We Can Do About It)
"The more we can blame some crime on some enemy, the greater the outrage," Noam Chomsky said in a recent discussion about terrorism.“The more we can blame some crime on some enemy, the greater the outrage,” Noam Chomsky said in Cambridge, Mass., in a recent discussion about terrorism with Kade Crockford, the director of the ACLU of Massachusetts’ Technology for Liberty Project. “The more we are responsible for it, and therefore, incidentally, can do something about it, the less the concern,” the renowned linguist and political activist added.
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