Europeans will pretend racism is an American phenomenon, despite the roots of it coming from Europe, until you start talking about Roma at which point they become as racist as a klansman.
I dunno, in my experience European racism is a more primitive type that you don't see as much in America anymore. Like even the most feral American hogs usually do the pretend song and dance that racism is bad before they beat the insert slur here to death. Like not saying it's better, just the pretension that Americans are somehow uniquely racist seems like eurolib cope to me.
I think it is that racism is so baked into American society that it is hard to miss I mean a nearby country club, which cannot be turned into public housing fast enough, had to be sued to let in Irish Catholics in the 1980s so it is harder to deny here. As aresult more Americans are aware of their racism than Europeans.
Europeans will pretend racism is an American phenomenon, despite the roots of it coming from Europe, until you start talking about Roma at which point they become as racist as a klansman.
I dunno, in my experience European racism is a more primitive type that you don't see as much in America anymore. Like even the most feral American hogs usually do the pretend song and dance that racism is bad before they beat the insert slur here to death. Like not saying it's better, just the pretension that Americans are somehow uniquely racist seems like eurolib cope to me.
I think it is that racism is so baked into American society that it is hard to miss I mean a nearby country club, which cannot be turned into public housing fast enough, had to be sued to let in Irish Catholics in the 1980s so it is harder to deny here. As aresult more Americans are aware of their racism than Europeans.