How to assess the merits of some current popular person’s views? Compare what he says to what Noam Chomsky says!

In determining the worth of some claim, one can either rely on one’s own critical powers, and/or try to use as a “benchmark” the views of some highly respected intellectual. Do a comparison of views.

Well, there is someone out there on the internet who is using the views of Noam Chomsky as the benchmark to compare the views of currently fashionable people — what can I call them? — celebrities?. This critical assessor is someone who calls himself — using Quine’s famous term — Dr. Gavagai.

Here are some of his videos — juxtaposing the views of Jordan Peterson with those of Noam Chomsky.

Here is a juxtaposition of Chomsky and Slavoj Zizek. I must confess that I have a systematic hard time understanding Zizek. Anyway, his only objection to Chomsky seems to be the claim — correct or not — that in the case of the Khmer Rouge, he underestimated the extent of their genocide.