I’ve been hearing people say he is a racist because he caused the Bengal famine but then I hear others say that it was Japan because they captured Burma and it made it hard to ship in food and also there was a cyclone the previous year. But then other things I’ve read have quotes about him saying things like Anglo-saxons are superior. I’ve also heard things about how he wanted to gas Iraq (I don’t know how much of this is true). So not looking through a modern day perspective, was Churchill a bigger racist compared to everyone else at the time? (I’m not asking through a modern day perspective considering most people were very racist in that time, instead I’m simply asking if he was a bigger racist than everyone else.)
With regard to Churchill's alleged support for use of gas in Iraq, the memorandum Churchill wrote in 1921 read:
I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.
I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. The moral effect should be so good that the loss of life should be reduced to a minimum. It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gasses: gasses can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected.
Emphasis mine. The thrust of Churchill's argument is clearly towards the use of debilitating but non-lethal agents like tear gas ("lachrymatory gas") to disperse the enemy without resorting to lethal force. Furthermore, "uncivilised tribe" was the then-accepted official term for a stateless opponent: if we used the same language today, ISIS would be considered an "uncivilised tribe". The British Manual of Military Law of 1914 stated that the rules of war applied only to conflict "between civilized nations", and it was clearly stated that "they do not apply in wars with uncivilized States and tribes"; instead the British commander should observe "the rules of justice and humanity" according to his own individual discretion.
Sources:
Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking With Destiny