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
I think part of why so many of us are harsh on him (and this goes for Bernie in recent years too) is precisely because of that soft spot. If only he could have been just ever so slightly better and told known child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to piss off!
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