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Topic	Noam Chomsky replied to my email.
ForsakenHermit 06/23/21 11:56:34 PM #34:	I got my reply here's a copypasta of my original email and Dr. Chomsky's reply. Greetings Dr. Chomsky, Over the past decade or so I've been perplexed at how leftists on internet message boards heavily focus on the crimes committed by Augusto Pinochet when compared to many other dictators and tyrants of the era including some of his neighbors Pinochet was a relative lightweight. For example Jorge Videla of Argentina had a far bloodier and briefer reign in Argentina yet he is rarely mentioned in the same capacity as Pinochet. Another example would be the genocidal actions of Alfredo Strossner during his time as President of Paraguay. Even taking into account the role the CIA had in helping Pinochet overthrow the democratically elected government I find heavily emphasizing Pinochet to be quite strange. Compared to US meddling in Chile the coups the CIA did in the 1950s in Guatemala and Iran have had far more severe if not catastrophic consequences. I'm not asking you to try and downplay the atrocities that Pinochet's government inflicted on the Chilean people, I'm just perplexed by the spotlight that he has considering how there are so many despots of our times that were so much worse. The only explanation I can come up with is that Pinochet came to power on September 11 1973. Had the coup happened a week later I don't think Pinochet would have as much notoriety among the left (at least not with millenials) that he does now. I hope to hear from you on this topic. Sincerely, ForsakenHermit* Ive often called the Pinochet coup the first 9/11, but Ive found that no one knows what Im talking about. The reasons I think were different. The Guatemala coup was in the 50s, when there was very little political activism. The lies about defense against Communism were readily accepted. It received little attention. The US was only peripherally involved in Paraguay and Argentina. The Chile coup was a major state-corporate enterprise overthrowing an international-known and respected social democratic figure at a time when 60s activism had civilized a large part of the population and the broad significance was far greater. Pinochet was the idol of the libertarians who took it to be the model for the neoliberal programs that swept over the world a few years later always suppressing the fact that their policies quickly crashed the economy. Quite different from the other cases. Real name left out for obvious reasons --- Beware the fanatic! Too often his cure is deadlier by far than the evil he denounces!-Stan Lee RIP Make Arcades Great Again! <cite>ForsakenHermit posted [p:955369791] in Noam Choms... [t:79528907]...</cite> <quote>I got my reply here's a copypasta of my original email and Dr. Chomsky's reply. Greetings Dr. Chomsky, Over the past decade or so I've been perplexed at how leftists on internet message boards heavily focus on the crimes committed by Augusto Pinochet when compared to many other dictators and tyrants of the era including some of his neighbors Pinochet was a relative lightweight. For example Jorge Videla of Argentina had a far bloodier and briefer reign in Argentina yet he is rarely mentioned in the same capacity as Pinochet. Another example would be the genocidal actions of Alfredo Strossner during his time as President of Paraguay. Even taking into account the role the CIA had in helping Pinochet overthrow the democratically elected government I find heavily emphasizing Pinochet to be quite strange. Compared to US meddling in Chile the coups the CIA did in the 1950s in Guatemala and Iran have had far more severe if not catastrophic consequences. I'm not asking you to try and downplay the atrocities that Pinochet's government inflicted on the Chilean people, I'm just perplexed by the spotlight that he has considering how there are so many despots of our times that were so much worse. The only explanation I can come up with is that Pinochet came to power on September 11 1973. Had the coup happened a week later I don't think Pinochet would have as much notoriety among the left (at least not with millenials) that he does now. I hope to hear from you on this topic. Sincerely, ForsakenHermit Ive often called the Pinochet coup the first 9/11, but Ive found that no one knows what Im talking about. The reasons I think were different. The Guatemala coup was in the 50s, when there was very little political activism. The lies about defense against Communism were readily accepted. It received little attention. The US was only peripherally involved in Paraguay and Argentina. The Chile coup was a major state-corporate enterprise overthrowing an international-known and respected social democratic figure at a time when 60s activism had civilized a large part of the population and the broad significance was far greater. Pinochet was the idol of the libertarians who took it to be the model for the neoliberal programs that swept over the world a few years later always suppressing the fact that their policies quickly crashed the economy. Quite different from the other cases. *Real name left out for obvious reasons --- Beware the fanatic! Too often his cure is deadlier by far than the evil he denounces!-Stan Lee RIP Make Arcades Great Again!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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