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American suppression of the Barbery slave trade had to do with protecting white American sailors and passengers from being enslaved. It wasn't about opposing slavery as such.

I love how professor Chomsky brings us back to simple reality and truth.

It's funny that he starts off by saying the purpose of the press was to protect people from government, without seeming to notice that all the largest newspapers have for 100 years, done nothing bit root for larger and more interventionist government.

a moronic speech. believing this guy's bullshit is the only danger of mind control you're going to run into. buying into a narrative like chomsky extolls will lead to a life of confusion, frustration and paranoia. the world isn't a huge fucking conspiracy

He’s a global historical treasure

Bernays was one of the most evil men to have walked the earth in terms of damage done to millions.

Slavery is now called Temu

I generally like hitchens, but i must strongly disagree with his praise of the haitian revolution.

Chomsky might be too old for his “Infodemic” take. Tik Tok is being banned because people are getting organized.

Well he had slaves and I am pretty sure he wasn’t trying to be one of the boys 🤷‍♂️

The commission and consent of information only affects those that fall victim to the authority vacuum. An individual can avoid any confusion of proclamations that are merely random reasoning and meandering accents of substance. This is for your consideration, sanity and survival.

Great video. I love Hitchens honesty and intelligence. One of my favorite people to listen to.

The short answer is YES.

It's funny how Chomsky has little faith, rightly, in official narratives about political issues, but blind faith in official narratives about scientific issues.

I learned early on that it was better to be a house slave inside with the women than to be a field slave outside with the men. I am a business owner now and refuse to have employees. It creeps me out.

Time for the people to show how we feel…let heads roll

He's right.

Loved Dawkins back in the day but now it’s so childish and naive. Destroying Christianity just creates a vacuum which will be filled by Islam or Communism. The God-shaped hole needs to be addressed.

Yes.

More waffle again, what he get paid for this? We do not know and humans are not intelligent enough to under stand creation. I remain agnostic!

I love Chomsky. Pick a topic any topic, don't even tell him what it is, and he has the complete answer Used to be called Bullshit.

Noam Chomsky has controlled far too many lives.

Thomas Jefferson had kids that were slaves

All of this man made religion and it's stories are nonsense but they do not preclude the presence of a creator of the unjverse, call it God! How much does Dawkins get paid for these boring lectures? Humans do not have the intelligence to understand to understand creation. Just forget about it, You will either know the answer, or you won't when you die. I remain an agnostic!

"three fifths" of a person. Slave owners to slaves: "You count for representation in the House, but you can't vote, and you can't be free."

I grew up in Youngstown and witnessed Black Monday and the slow motion decay of the mills. We were always told that the Japanese steel was cheaper. But now we know that the Federal government was subsidizing the shipping and fuel industries, which made the Japanese steel more competitive. So they used our own tax money to move the jobs out of country.

“The bawdy hand of time is on the prick of noon” 😂

Dominion (2018)

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] ♥️ 🌎 👌 😎

Fascism is "what I do is right and what I say is right whether it is or it isn't." Fascism has returned. This is the 2.0 version. And like the school shooters at heart that all these people are, they are going to try and outdo their predecessors in terms of mayhem and body count. That means 100s of millions of people are going to die this time around, and all this death and suffering will be met with a shrug of the shoulders and, "that didn't really happen."

My ideal of American history is not idyllic at all. Jeffersons beliefs are clear. It had to be passed to Lincoln to end slavery.

Great re-upload thanks - Hitch's book on Jefferson (Author of America) is well worth reading.

Regan and Thatcher,neoliberalism.

The absolute best thing to do back then was free all the slaves and send all the blacks back to Africa where they could prosper and have full liberty. We can clearly see what happened with Haiti. It's an absolute dumpster fire and it always has been.

I am trying to find his speech or an article on how and for what purpose Christianity and other religions have been playing major part in controlling,abusing and brainwashing people for centuries. I haven't found one. I wonder why.

Did slave owner Thomas Jefferson support slavery? Boy i'm sitting on the edge fo my seat wondering if his and Sally Hemings relationship was consensual, you know having to keep in mind that he owned her and their children as his property. Of the hundreds of slaves he legally owned, Jefferson freed only five in his will, all men from the Hemings family.

Jefferson thought that we were going to end up in the position of Haiti.

Let's not forget that as much as he wants to talk up Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson did enter into a sexual relationship with a 14-Year-Old slave who was the same age as his daughter.

Either there are many bots, but the comment section exemplifies what Chomsky discusses: individuals who do not care about the truth.

' Noam Chomsky : US Is World's Biggest Terrorist . '

Greed Kills!

THIS should be the thing that historically condemns Jefferson. Not the owning of slaves, many of the Founding Fathers did that, he was merely a product of his time in that regard. It's that, when push came to shove, when the slaves in Haiti revolted, he couldn't recognize their independence, because he feared it would either start the chain reaction that would lead to abolition in the US, or American slaves would be inspired and revolt as well. It was okay to talk about ending slavery when you can control the speed of it, extending it for decades and beyond your life span, but when world events force your hand, THAT is where your true character comes out. Jefferson could have been remembered as a major player in ending slavery decades before it actually was, avoiding a bloody civil war in the process; instead, he kicked the can down the road, compromise after compromise was made, and Lincoln eventually was the one to clean it all up.

When you read Notes on State of Virginia, Jefferson tries to "test" the humanity of a slave by teaching him geometry, which seems kinda bone headded until you consider Plato's Meno. What Plato wrote in defense oh hellenistic slaves wouldn't apply to rhe brutal conditions o the colonial slaves. But alas he read it quite literally, so a defense of the soul, or humanity of all people, became validation of it's very opposite.

I'm not boarding any sex yachts or exchanging money with government operatives. I'm cool. Are you?

I myself am increasingly growing sickened by just how pervasive class warfare is becoming in the U.S. I've found myself having intelligent and cordial conversations with strangers using mass transit where once it was determined that I am poor through descriptions of my life experiences I've literally felt unseen walls going up between us and a decent into quiet awkwardness. It is taking away our humanity. It quite literally tears families and friendships apart. It keeps us in separate bubbles where perpetuating thoughts and feelings of disdain, fear, and hatred grow ever more solidified against those whom either have more (or less) than us. It is an insidious sickness that I believe is rotting away the fibers of the tapestry that is our society.

Typical Chomsky nonsense. First, make a claim. Second, find an obscure example of his claim 100 years ago. Third, make the leap that it proves his first point. Fourth, dumb audience laps it up without ever looking close to see if it was ever true or if there were 1000 examples that prove the counter-point.

Human experiments failed! Not a damn thing anyone can do anything about it! Look around wars after wars, millions of poor innocent people died and we are still talking about humanity!

Jefferson was 100% pro slavery. The abolishment of importing slaves into the US in 1807 under Jefferson's Presidency was NOT an indication that he was against slavery. It was indeed the acknowledgment that slave breeding was where the real money was, and breeding slaves wouldnt be as lucrative if they kept importing them. Virginia, Jefferson's home state, quickly became the center of slave breeding in the South, and gained enormous wealth from it. " I consider a woman (slave) who brings a child every two years as more profitable than the best man(slave) of the farm. What she produces is in addition to the capital, while his labor disappears in mere consumption" -Thomas Jefferson

What Hitchens failed to grasp was that slavery was accepted and common place for all of human history until the industrial revolution made it unnecessary. Thank you hydrocarbons….

Where is this?