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Re:Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a sto... by hirundo on Sunday May 28, 2023 @10:03AM (#36104072)
Fascinating article, it argues that Churchill was indeed racist and imperialist toward these people, and yet strove to head off the famine from humanitarian impulses. The more informed histories always seem to be written in shades of grey.
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Re:Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a sto... by zpeti on Sunday May 28, 2023 @10:08AM (#36104106)
If Churchill wasn’t a bit racist he probably wouldn’t have thought British culture is superior to nazi culture.
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Re:Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a sto... by NotYourLawyer on Sunday May 28, 2023 @10:26AM (#36104255)
Nazi isn’t a race though…
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Re:Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a sto... by HL33tibCe7 on Sunday May 28, 2023 @11:24AM (#36104809)
Yeah from what I’ve read this seems the most correct take. Churchill was, in today’s parlance, a racist. He saw other races as inferior, I think it’s hard to deny that. But he _did_ still have respect for them, and certainly did not see other races as subhuman or below moral consideration as articles like the OP claim.
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