On: Chomsky praises Snowden and condemns US hypocrisy

[tome]

Do you know what "American Exceptionalism" means? What do you think is wrong with that characterisation?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism

[mikeash → tome]

Approximately all of it is wrong. The USA is exceptional precisely because it's the most powerful, and nothing more.

[tome → mikeash]

That's what you're claming American think, or that's what you think?

[mikeash → tome]

That's what I think. Many Americans in my experience believe the "American exceptionalism" described there, in terms of the country being uniquely classless, or free, or whatever.