re: #83 Nyet

I have read Shahak’s notorious book (which was, interestingly enough, endorsed/blurbed by Chomsky, Hitchens and Vidal; unsurprisingly, it was also liked by David Duke) and it was full of stupid generalizations and inaccuracies. Not everything he says is untrue, but you would have to know enough about the topic in the first place to separate the wheat from the chaff, so as a source it’s pretty useless.

This is important, thank you. I was surprised to read that his book was endorsed by Hitchens especially, but that was before he took a turn to the right. One of the things I like is that when you google someone now, below photos of them and a link to their Wiki page (if there is one) shows you photos of people who are related to or similar to them in some way.

This is what came up for Shahak:

Yikes! O_O