i mean he’s been hugely influential in linguistics and it’d be dumb to pretend he hasn’t made contributions of value, but it’s fun to dunk on him and there’s definitely a fair bit that’s somewhat controversial and that i disagree with
What do you dislike about him linguistically? I'm only familiar with his contributions to generative grammar/language which seems pretty okay in my.understanding
Oof. You guys hate pretty hard on Chomsky. Whatever his faults (I'm sure they're many), he brought a lot of anticapitalist and anti-imperialist messages to the (semi) mainstream. You may argue that he was allowed to do so as he wasn't left enough, bur he was a big part of a lot of people's journey (mine included). I say give him his due and leave it there, at least in terms of politics/philosophy. Recent revelations around is relationship with Epstein excluded!
Most people here have a soft spot for him similar to Bernie Sanders. And he has some good work; people clown on him but ask around and people will still recommend him
every time the earth does a complete revolution around the sun, you become 1 year older. The earth has revolved around the sun 95 times since Chomsky was born