Some parts of American society are very racist, some parts are not. The same is equally true of Europe. Is American racism different to european racism ? Yes of course, as racism to a greater degree is rooted in cultural assumptions which vary from place to place, country to country. So, I'm not even sure that the racism in upper class england can even be usefully compared to that in working class england. Both are racism and, in some ways, might find common cause, but one is very much not the other.
So making a statement as apparently definitive as chomsky's just seem clown-ish to me.
One might ask as uselessly whether America is more misogynist than europe because we've had female political leaders when, one suspects, it may be a rainy day in hell.....etc keep to the Fen Causeway
Democracy Now! | Noam Chomsky: "What Next? The Elections, the Economy, and the World"
The election was described as an extraordinary display of democracy, a miracle that could only happen in America and on and on. Much more extreme than Europe even than here. There's some accuracy in that if we keep to the West. So if we keep to the West, yes, it's probably true. That couldn't have happened anywhere else. Europe was much more racist than the United States and you wouldn't expect anything like that to happen.
He seems to be agreeing with it, though, which is in fact sloppy of him.
