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MIT loses Noam Chomsky to Arizona
By adamg on Thu, 08/17/2017 - 7:37pm
The Tucson Sentinel reports the University of Arizona has signed up longtime MIT linguistics professor (now emeritus) Noam Chomsky to teach there.
Chomsky will arrive on the Tuscon campus this month and will teach starting in the spring semester.
Chomsky is quoted as saying he's looking forward to teaching undergraduates again - and to the balmier Tucson weather.
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Huge loss for Boston
As a friend who just finished reading his book "Who Rules the World" I feel this is a huge loss for Boston/Cambridge.
His depth of knowledge over a wide range of subjects is daunting and inspiring. His boldness in questioning everything is a model for how true intellectuals should observe and act in the world.
There is a passage in his book which has been inspiring to me and which I feel applies to many of the frequent commenters here on UHUB from many different viewpoints:
"...intellectuals are typically privileged; privilege yields opportunity, and opportunity confers responsibilities. An individual then has choices."
I will be marching against intolerance Saturday. Thank you Professor Chomsky.
Chomsky doesn't have a wide
Chomsky doesn't have a wide range of knowledge. He was just good at faking it to the gullible and getting very rich while doing it.
It's sad MIT never fired him for the unethical treatment of an abused nonverbal woman as part of his research and the academic fraud he perpetrated which set back the field of linguistics for 20 years until his flawed research was debunked. MIT was more concerned with raking in the cash from their cut of book sales than maintaining ethical and professional standards.
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I assume you're talking in part about Genie, but please be more specific.
Maybe he should run for
president.
Any sources you'd recommend
Any sources you'd recommend to read more on this? Genuinely curious, since I haven't heard of it before.
I'd never heard of this
I'd never heard of this before either and there's only a little bit of info on Chomsky's involvement in the case here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)
Why wasn't this made into a movie or documentary? Seems like a big deal.
I would give you the same
I would give you the same answer Chomsky would. "It's widely know to anyone paying attention and the sources are out there for anyone who cares to look. "
Citations please?
You can't expect us to take your word for these two things without some documentation.
Oh
There is something to be said about an anonymous internet poster making a baseless accusation regarding the authenticity of knowledge of a well regarded professor.
Noam knows business
Good riddance
Though I can't imagine his traitorous political opinions will go over well in deep-red Arizona.
http://www.washingtonexaminer
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/noam-chomsky-antifa-is-a-major-gift-to...
You forget that there are
You forget that there are pockets of liberalism all over the South, West and Midwest. Especially centered around colleges. In many ways those liberal pockets are more liberal than many parts of Boston because while liberals in our home town feel comfortable spreading their wings... liberals down there feel the need to all hang out in the same area. Tuscon is liberal enough for him. Plus seriously, no snow!
Nazis have traitorous opinions
Confederates have traitorous opinions.
Please document IN DETAIL what is traitorous about ANYTHING that Chomsky has EVER said?
Take your time - it might mean some *gasp* STUDYING STUFF.
MIT's not actually losing him
MIT's not actually losing him, since he's been retired from MIT for a decade and a half (he's 88), and according to MIT's announcement (on MIT Linguistics facebook page), he's not cutting his ties.
Why Negative??
I'm not a supporter of most of Chomsky's positions.
However, he's an academic thought-simulator with a world-wide reputation. That's been good for him, Boston, MIT and beyond.
This position gives Chomsky a platform in a warm climate, and raises the profile of U. of Arizona.
How can that be bad?