Re: The Working-Poor Draft
Michael Pugliese wrote:
Noam didn’t dispute that he said only 49 were killed in the worst of the pogroms in tsarist russia. http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/20051031.htm
That’s pretty different from your earlier statement:
Why only 49 Jews died in pogroms, Noam said so in The Guardian.
Brockes exact quote: [the pogroms were] “not very bad, by contemporary standards. In the worst of the major massacres, I think about 49 people were killed.”
So is he wrong?
Doug