Noam Chomsky Quotes
It was right after Woodrow Wilson's first serious post-World War I repression, which deported thousands of people, effectively destroyed unions and independent press, and so on. Right after that, the anti-immigration law was passed that remained in place until the 1960s.
Chomsky, Noam. Year 501: The Conquest Continues. South End Press, 1993.
Mensheviks were the opposition political party to the Bolsheviks. Lenin used Ethnic Cleansing and deportation to gain control of areas where Mensheviks had and established following. It was so ruthlessly effective, that shortly thereafter the Mensheviks were no a significant force and the entire country was Bolshevik. Today, few people even know what a Menshevik was.
She pointed out that the contribution that demographics make to determine intolerance is small when compared with the personality characteristics of the individual. So uneducated white males or Christian Evangelists have much tolerance variability within those groups. Some have authoritarian personalities and these tend to be the intolerant people.
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.
