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Re:A Letter From Winston Churchill’s Disappointed Mother by chrisco255 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @02:09AM (#18191275)
Yeah, Churchill may have been controversial at times, but he was absolutely the best possible person to lead Britain at that moment at that time. It just boggles my mind that people try to flatten people of history and cast them in a very specific shadow, out of context of the world, events, and viewpoints of the moment.
Re:A Letter From Winston Churchill’s Disappointed Mother by _cerv on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:22AM (#18192250)
It seems to be a trendy Twitter thing to shit on the legacy of Churchill after Scott Kelly’s tweet quoting him. Churchill was probably just as bad or even worse than Hitler and to put even the faintest of a positive light on any of his achievements and fruits of his leadership at the time just shows how racist you are.

I’m being hyperbolic, but I’m also fucking frustrated that we tear down figures of history whith honrible qualities into the ruins of racists and despots. Would the world have been a better place without Churchill?

Re:A Letter From Winston Churchill’s Disappointed Mother by FranzFerdiNaN on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:43AM (#18192337)
When Stalin starved millions of people we invented a completely new word for it, when Churchill does it it's barely 'controversial'.
Re:A Letter From Winston Churchill’s Disappointed Mother by chrisco255 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @03:39PM (#18196422)
Churchill didn't invent famines for crying out loud. It wasn't an evil plot on his part. The year was 1943...the entire world was at war...maybe you heard about it. The Japanese cut off supplies. Lots of people were being murdered, Britain might not have even survived but for Churchill. War is fucking hell. You have to make trade-offs and decisions that lead to real deaths and the consequences are felt for centuries after. Boy you name one leader of any war torn nation that has never made zero mistakes.