Noam Chomsky on Jingoism, Racism, and Political Mobilization

„Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.“

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Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, and political activist, renowned for his work in linguistic theory and critical social analysis.

Noam Chomsky analyzes how fear, exclusion, and fundamentalism can be used for political mobilization.


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Noam Chomsky quote about jingoism, racism, fear, and religious fundamentalism

Born in 1928, Noam Chomsky is a prominent linguist, cognitive scientist, philosopher, and political activist. He is widely regarded as the father of modern linguistics and revolutionized the field with his theory of generative grammar. Additionally, Chomsky is known for his critical analyses of politics and mass media.

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"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us." Thích Nhất Hạnh
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"The easiest way to grab people’s attention is to make them frightened. This is how we are built really as animals. So if you want to distract the public from issues like government corruption or like deteriorating health care system or deteriorating education system, the best thing is to find an external enemy that threatens the survival of the nation and immediately that gets all the attention and people forget about the other things" Yuval Noah Harari
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"The conception of democracy is the one that I mentioned. The bewildered herd is a problem. We've got to prevent their roar and trampling. We've got to distract them. They should be watching the Superbowl or sitcoms or violent movies. Every once in a while you call on them to chant meaningless slogans like "Support our troops." You've got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they're properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they're not competent to think. Therefore it's important to distract them and marginalize them." Noam Chomsky
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