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Originally Posted by Cherry7
To call a person a war profiteer because they give speeches campaigning against war is to give stupidity a new low meaning.
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Who is calling him a war profiteer for giving speeches against war?
Let me try and break it down for you:
Days prior to 9/11
Chomsky's speaking fee: $9,000
Days after 9/11
Chomsky's speaking fee: $12,000
An act (which many considered to be of war) occurred on U.S. soil, and the War on Terror was ready to begin. Chomsky, being more in demand, decided to profit off of this ensuing war to the tune of an extra $3,000 a speech. Sounds like a war profiteer to me.
That is, unless you have a better term for what he did.