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The evil side of Winston Churchill

vendredi 19 mars 2021 à 01:00

Britain (and the world) needs to remember the evil side of Winston Churchill as well as the heroic side.

In addition to his racism, he was also a Tory: he stood for keeping working Britons down. That's why they voted in 1945 to replace him with the Labour Party, led by the giants that inspired Jeremy Corbyn.

Set against this, he not only championed the defeat of Germany and Japan, he also made the world aware of the totalitarian repression of the Soviet Union under Stalin.

It is true that cancellationism and pressure for censorship can be found on the left and on the right. When they come from the right, they tend to involve heavy-handed threats. Resisting that can be difficult but people don't hesitate to denounce it as censorship. When they come from the left, it consists of a mob that demands submission in the name of a cause which is basically just. Many consider them heroes, and just as with Churchill, find it difficult to recognize the evil side of what they do. Sperm whales taught each other Sperm whales taught each other, as a society, effective methods to protect themselves from human whale-hunters that were using sailing ships.