Why didn't we demonise Assange? Is Chomsky guilty of a sex crime? Or indeed any crime.

I'll just pick out a few bits of yer man's article. Regarding Chomsky's criticism of the Me Too movement - I remember many of the people on here ridiculing the MeToo movement. To say nothing of belittling the woke movement. Yet when these criticisms are hurled at Chomsky you have nothing to say in his defence.

Some guy in the comments has just joined your baying mob to say that Chomsky has always been suspect - "Just look at the way he's always been a genocide denier!" Monbiot must be delighted by all this stuff. Join the queue. I certainly won't be.

As far as I can make out, the only thing Chomsky is guilty of is standing up for his friends. Being too loyal.

When it is the very same media that spent years trying to crucify Chomsky, himself, he's bound to be suspicious of them when they attack his close friends. Consequently, he will, of course, give those same friends advice on how to deal with those attackers. What's the big deal?

Incidentally, (from the comments) Alan Mac Leod has gone through reams of Epstein emails and he has seen not a word referring to Chomsky and sex. Mac Leod also makes the point that Epstein was probably Chomsky's closest friend.

Chomsky is being demonised and we are rushing to collude in it. How quickly we forget.

Hey, let's burn Chomsky's books.

Over my dead body!