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He didn't make a statement, he cited rhetoric around the Obama election.

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.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Nov 27th, 2008 at 12:31:51 PM EST
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As I said above - the far more important and substantial point was about the rest of the world, and how the election of Obama was not such a wonderful event, for the reasons he gives.


Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Thu Nov 27th, 2008 at 12:49:05 PM EST
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