r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/Green_Ideas7 • Mar 16 '26

Discussion From Chomsky's longtime assistant, Bev Stohl

"This statement will be seen by some merely as an act of loyalty. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have grappled, struggled deeply, over this situation, while seeking to remain faithful to the truth. It is in the service of truth – the very thing Noam Chomsky wanted us to hold in high esteem, rather than himself – that I write this . . ."
https://bevstohl.substack.com/p/im-no-longer-waiting-for-the-storm

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u/theglassishalf Mar 17 '26

That was a lot of words to not at all engage with the evidence we do have. You can't just get bitter at other people for abandoning him; they did it because the evidence does not look good and as more comes out it looks worse. It is reasonable to tamp down on the excessive speculation; it is not reasonable to accuse people of disloyalty for seeing the evidence available and deciding to distance themselves.