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Noam Chomsky, a brilliant linguistics professor who is popular amongst champagne socialists and has repeatedly downplayed or outright denied various genocides (Cambodia, Serbia, Ukraine) because they were performed by anti-US forces.
Someone cloned Roger Waters?
Can you share context? Chompsky is pretty focused on US politics, and genocide elsewhere may be a "not my bad, man. I talk about US politics, and am not gonna spend time on a situations where the US isn't involved" which would be a reasonable reason to avoid the topic, or were they "f those guys, the power behind it is anti american."
The only info I can find is that he cagey about callkn something "genocide" in case its not the actual definition. Check his takes on the Uyghurs, he seems to want to be able to fully establish what's occurring before labelling it genocide.
Someone asked for examples elsewhere, so by reposting this I don't mean to spam it, but it gives a good overview of several such... problematic Chomsky positions.
https://bosniak.org/2009/08/28/chomskys-genocidal-denial/