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Noam Chomsky's Email To Jeffrey Epstein Will Make You Sick (Original Post) DonCoquixote 2 hrs ago OP
Seems consistent to me leftstreet 2 hrs ago #1
Why. Because many men think that their peepee has more rights than women and girls Bread and Circuses 2 hrs ago #2
Well, when your God has a dick n/t leftstreet 2 hrs ago #5
Autogenerated transcript... + info links ultralite001 2 hrs ago #3
Are we sure this isn't NORM Chomsky? BaronChocula 2 hrs ago #4
Perhaps not as much as he said he did EdmondDantes_ 2 hrs ago #6
If you know that you're going down, take their heroes with you. mjvpi 1 hr ago #7
"Not all men".... Bettie 1 hr ago #8
Not all of the correspondence is with pedophile clients. blm 1 hr ago #9

leftstreet

(39,437 posts)
1. Seems consistent to me
Wed Feb 4, 2026, 02:35 PM
2 hrs ago

Chomsky is a misogynist

I posted this in another thread:

I don't think Chomsky participated in any creepy Epstein stuff. However the emails reveal an issue that blinded his understanding of class analysis throughout his career.

In his email to Epstein re: the sexual abuse accusations he refers to "the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women."

wtaf

That he could engage in a decades long analysis of power that ignored sex and gender..

Well


ultralite001

(2,408 posts)
3. Autogenerated transcript... + info links
Wed Feb 4, 2026, 02:50 PM
2 hrs ago

0:00
We are now learning from the latest
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batch of the Epstein files released by
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the DOJ of course that uh Noam Chomsky of
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all people was not only friendly with
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Jeffrey Epstein, he uh was providing
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advice to Jeffrey Epstein as he was uh
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dealing with some
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sexual assault and rape allegations uh
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you know pretty close to when he
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actually ended up getting prosecuted and
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imprisoned. Um, so this is actually an
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email that Chomsky had written to Epstein
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February 23rd... 23rd, 2019. Epstein copied
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and pasted the message and sent it over
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to a guy named Matthew uh, Hiltzik to
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get his uh, you know, his opinion on
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what Chomsky was saying and the advice he
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was giving to Epstein. So now I'm going
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to read you Chomsky's actual message to
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Epstein. He says, quote,
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"I've watched the horrible way you are
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being treated in the press and public.
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It's painful to say, but I think the
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best way to proceed is to ignore it.
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I've had plenty of experience, though,
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of course, not on this scale. A Google
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search will bring up tons of hysterical
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accusations of all sorts, even groups
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devoted to vilifying me. I pay no
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attention unless I'm approached for a
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comment on a specific matter. It's a
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nuisance, but it's the best way. The
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same conclusions from experiences of
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others, in some cases close friends. So,
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like here's Noam Chomsky giving a serial
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pedophile rapist advice on how to handle
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the latest allegations against him.
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There's more. Further, he writes, "What
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the vultures what the vultures dearly
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want is a public response, which then
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provides a public opening for an
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onslaught of venomous attacks, many from
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just publicity seekers or cranks of all
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sorts, which are impossible to answer.
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How do you prove that you are not a
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neo-Nazi who wants to kill the Jews or
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rapist or whatever charges come along?"
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That's particularly true now with the
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hysteria that has developed about abuse
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of women, which has reached the point
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that even questioning a charge is a
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crime worse than murder. For virtually
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everyone who sees any of this, the
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reaction will be where there's smoke
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there's fire. Maybe raging fire,
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whatever the facts, which few will even
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think of investigating. Okay, that was
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that was Noam Chomsky uh in a message that
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he sent to Jeffrey Epstein in 2019. So,
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this is after Epstein had already been
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convicted of uh trafficking human beings
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for sex.
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I don't get it.
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I do. Uh there are no hero there are no
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heroes in politics. Just be very clear
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about that. There are no heroes. Just
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take people as they come, right? Some
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have good, you know, contributions to
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the world of politics, but I think it's
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a mistake to think that anyone's a hero.
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All right. Uh
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so, but but part of the reason why I'm
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confused by it is because he says in the
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middle uh like it's how do you prove
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that you're not a neo-Nazi who wants to
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kill the Jews? The reason why Chomsky says
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that is because I think because Chomsky
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has been called an anti-semite before,
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which is hilarious. He's Jewish. Uh, but
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he's generally been against Israel's
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genocide and all these things. So
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I But what the hell is he doing with
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Epstein and but we all knew in 2008 he
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got caught. There's no question. So why
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would you go hang out with him? I I just
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don't get it. And so yeah, but look to
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to Anna's point about heroes. No, no,
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guys. Just look,
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heroes [snorts] are for, you know,
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movies and books and stuff. Everybody's
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human. So, and by the way, you could be
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a hero while being human. Martin Luther
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King was very, very human and was an
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amazing hero, right? So, but in to me,
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the bigger problem in this case is that
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we're in a Alice in Wonderland situation
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and we're in a hall of mirrors and I you
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can't tell what's real or what's not
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real. I just was watching Dave
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Chappelle's um latest um um uh special
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on Netflix and he says the same thing.
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He's like,
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"We we can't tell what's going on
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anymore, right? Who's a good guy? Who's
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a bad guy? Does the government
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ever tell the truth? Does the media ever
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tell the truth? So then where do we go
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for figuring out what's going on?"
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And I used to think that and I I've
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interviewed Noam Chomsky a bunch of times.
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was proud of it and I used to think that
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he was the smartest man alive. But why
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would a guy that brilliant, which he is,
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he's indisputably brilliant, make at a
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minimum such a stupid mistake of going
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and at a minimum hanging out with
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Jeffrey Epstein.
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He Bannon, what is that?
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Yeah, he gave a um confirmed rapist
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advice on how to dodge the latest
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allegations against him. So, I've got no
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interest in trying to understand the
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mind of Noam Chomsky. People behave as
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they actually are behind closed doors.
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And so, I got a little taste of who Noam
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Chomsky really is. And it's depressing,
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but it is what it is. And
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but it it made me think like, wait, is
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there you know the the concept of
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controlled opposition, right?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And so, it's called the Democratic
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Party. [laughter]
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So, but it made me think
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are even people who are on our side
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actually on our side like or are they
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put there for a release valve and for
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other reasons etc.
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Because obviously there are some folks
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who are super well organized. They are a
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very well-coordinated team and the
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general public in America is not well
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organized. And we've had we as I've
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talked about on the Tucker Carlson show,
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but as I've talked about on here and
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many other places, they they formed two
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teams for us, Republican and Democrat,
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and they said, "Use up all of your
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energy fighting one another. And
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whatever you do, don't look up." So, we
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got to get organized. If we don't get
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organized, these folks are going to rob
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us blind from here to eternity.
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Mhm.
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So, operationconsequences.com.
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You ever see anybody voting for Israel
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to get another dollar, vote them out.
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Vote them out in your own primaries.
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They're not one of you. They're not a
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Republican. They're not a Democrat.
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They're not barely Americans. Every time
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you ring the bell below, an angel gets
6:40
his swings. Totally not true, but it
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does keep you updated on our live shows.


https://epsteinweb.org/noam-chomsky/

https://epsteinweb.org/matthew-hiltzik/


BaronChocula

(4,159 posts)
4. Are we sure this isn't NORM Chomsky?
Wed Feb 4, 2026, 02:50 PM
2 hrs ago

Or Noam Champsky? The Noam Chomsky I know of disdained the world of high-stakes capital dealings.

EdmondDantes_

(1,501 posts)
6. Perhaps not as much as he said he did
Wed Feb 4, 2026, 03:12 PM
2 hrs ago

Chomsky has said he had a relationship with Epstein on financial matters. It's definitely not a good look for Chomsky considering it was long after Epstein's first conviction.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/jeffrey-epstein-files-noam-chomsky

mjvpi

(1,897 posts)
7. If you know that you're going down, take their heroes with you.
Wed Feb 4, 2026, 03:41 PM
1 hr ago

First off, shame on Noam Chomsky. He's a brilliant person, on some levels I guess.
They are playing this out as a Democratic problem. Get the dumb Americans numb to the headlines. Then the reaction to Trump's involvement will be some what muted. I don't think it will work.

Bettie

(19,425 posts)
8. "Not all men"....
Wed Feb 4, 2026, 03:44 PM
1 hr ago

but enough that we should be careful around them.

Seems once they get a lot of money, they think there are no rules, no basic humanity, just pure ego.

blm

(114,448 posts)
9. Not all of the correspondence is with pedophile clients.
Wed Feb 4, 2026, 03:53 PM
1 hr ago

Apparently Epstein courted everyone he could with lies about his motives.

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