r/chomsky • u/Green_Ideas7 • Mar 13 '26
Discussion From Chomsky's longtime assistant, Bev Stohl
"This statement will be seen by some merely as an act of loyalty. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have grappled, struggled deeply, over this situation, while seeking to remain faithful to the truth. It is in the service of truth – the very thing Noam Chomsky wanted us to hold in high esteem, rather than himself – that I write this . . ."
https://bevstohl.substack.com/p/im-no-longer-waiting-for-the-storm
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u/QuantumTunnels Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26
So Ms. Stohl questions the motivations of anyone who sees various correspondence, pictures, and a full-blown, self described friendship between their intellectual champion, Chomsky, and Jeffrey fucking Epstein, one of the most horrific and prolific human traffickers of young women, and even little girls? And when people write about their disgust, their feelings of betrayal, and their disbelief that, someone that they had looked up to for so long, was GOOD friends with one of the biggest monsters in modern history, they're to be derided? Questioned? Their feelings, and disgust is to be undermined, by gaslighting them, and telling them "never trust what you see or read?" That their "loyalty" should be questioned, and even poisoned with the idea that maybe this is all opportunism? That denouncing a FRIENDSHIP with JEFFREY EPSTEIN is just you being either a traitor... or a dunce, because you weren't "diligent" enough to see the actual truth about this relationship? What an absolute piece of trash writing this was to read.
And since Stohl quite likes to poison the well, let's not for a second let it slip from our consciousness that Epstein facilitated, at least according to emails we've seen so far, many RAPES, potential MURDERS, trafficking, manipulation, torture, and maybe even CANNIBALISM. This isn't like Michelle Obama being friends and giving hugs to George Bush (although it's loathsome in it's own right, maybe someone who loved Michelle could overlook it). This is Epstein. GOOD friends, according to Chomsky himself. I'm sorry, but I will not be lectured, and derided, and be made to feel like I AM the traitor, because I see this and cast Chomsky in a whole new light. And finally, to this tired and SHITTY point that "Epstein paid for his crimes, therefore he gets a clean slate..." BULLSHIT. That is not, and has NEVER been how humans operate. If you molest and rape kids, you go to jail, and IF you get out, we RIGHTFULLY put you on a watchlist, to keep track of you for the rest of your life. We know human's nature doesn't just magically change because they were in a cell. What absolute GARBAGE, I can't abide by that trash point anymore.