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Re:Winston Churchill’s Image Removed in UK/US Search Results? by aatharuv on Saturday June 13, 2020 @08:52PM (#23514189)
Agreed, Winston Churchill's active hindering of efforts to ameliorate the Bengal famine of 1943, by exporting food from Bengal, and discouraging _sales_ of food from Canada, caused about 4 million deaths.

At the very least, he's at the same level as Tojo Hideki, whose invasion of Burma was the other cause of the famine.

We don't wipe out images of people no matter how evil they were.

Re:Winston Churchill’s Image Removed in UK/US Search Results? by phs on Saturday June 13, 2020 @08:43PM (#23514135)
And yet Hitler shows up.
Re:Winston Churchill’s Image Removed in UK/US Search Results? by Lammy on Saturday June 13, 2020 @08:44PM (#23514137)
To save everyone else the click through the Google support thread: https://imgur.com/cQniuVj
Re:Winston Churchill’s Image Removed in UK/US Search Results? by churchillracist on Saturday June 13, 2020 @08:48PM (#23514162)
Rightfully so. I agree there shouldn't be any censorship. Just as the facts about Churchill ought to be highlighted and he shouldn't be allowed to aryanwash history.
Re:Winston Churchill’s Image Removed in UK/US Search Results? by Bud on Saturday June 13, 2020 @08:47PM (#23514158)
So you made an account just to push this point of view? Pardon me if I'm not terribly impressed.

How about you make the argument yourself, in your own words, if you think it's so convincing? Good luck convincing any rational adults that Churchill is on the same level as Hitler. Notwithstanding Churchill's flaws and racism, that's plainly ludicrous.

Re:Winston Churchill’s Image Removed in UK/US Search Results? by churchillracist on Saturday June 13, 2020 @08:50PM (#23514173)
Instead of you demanding I make the argument myself in my own words, you could just please watch or listen to the podcast that I directly linked to. Churchill and Lindemann intentionally genocided 3 million Indians. That's not just plain racism, that's genocide. Same as Hitler.
Re:Winston Churchill’s Image Removed in UK/US Search Results? by dilandau on Saturday June 13, 2020 @08:52PM (#23514193)
SJW would rewrite history if they could, doing away with anything that didn't agree completely with whatever they consider moral.

This is far more horrifying to me than the fact that Churchill held beliefs largely in line with his generation and upbringing.

Re:Winston Churchill’s Image Removed in UK/US Search Results? by eesmith on Sunday June 14, 2020 @02:15AM (#23515519)
So, umm, hi?! I'm an SJW. I believe we should teach more history.

I believe when we teach about Columbus, we should also teach about his introduction of the encomienda system of slavery.

I believe that when we teach the US Civil War, we include the founding documents of the Confederate states which declare in no uncertain terms that the states left the Union in order to preserve slavery, rather than letting the lies of the Lost Cause rewritten history persist. And we include how much the North benefitted from slave labor too.

I believe that when we talk about the history of unionization and suffrage movement we include talking about their racism.

I believe that when we learn about The Six Grandfathers (better known to you as Mt. Rushmore) we also learn that the land was stolen from the Lakota Sioux, and how Borglum was a knight of the Ku Klux Klan. And when we teach about the California Gold Rush era we also teach about the horror of the California Genocide.

Not talking about those aspects of our history is itself a rewrite.

But the idea that Google is deliberately blocking Churchill's image because of some sort of corporate desire to hide history to appease SJWs like me - what?! That makes no sense.

Re:Winston Churchill’s Image Removed in UK/US Search Results? by shadowgovt on Saturday June 13, 2020 @08:55PM (#23514214)
What is far more horrifying? That Google isn't returning a photo of him in the Onebox system?

Image search still works fine if you need a photo of him.