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[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 days ago

Some actual Churchill quotes. This is who repeatedly gets voted the "Greatest Briton" by the British people.

  • "It is, thank heaven, difficult if not impossible for the modern European to fully appreciate the force which fanaticism exercises among an ignorant, warlike and Oriental population. Several generations have elapsed since the nations of the West have drawn the sword in religious controversy, and the evil memories of the gloomy past have soon faded in the strong, clear light of Rationalism and human sympathy. Indeed it is evident that Christianity, however degraded and distorted by cruelty and intolerance, must always exert a modifying influence on men's passions, and protect them from the more violent forms of fanatical fever, as we are protected from smallpox by vaccination."
  • "I think we shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them. I believe that as civilized nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations. I believe in the ultimate partition of China — I mean ultimate. I hope we shall not have to do it in our day. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph."
  • "I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race."
  • "I think a curse should rest on me — because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment — and yet — I can't help it — I enjoy every second of it."
  • "One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks."
  • "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."
  • "There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews, it is certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others."
  • "One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations."
  • "I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."
  • "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion."
[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 days ago

“There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews, it is certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others.”

almost indistinguishable from Hitler

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 84 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's underselling how racist Churchill was towards Indians. "Beastly people with a beastly religion".

Though, to be fair, he was also racist towards african peoples, jewish people, arab people, the Chinese and the Irish.

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 days ago

And Australia's First Nations peoples

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[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 56 points 3 days ago

Don't ask Churchill about his undue sympathy toward captured Nazi soldiers either

[-] npdean@lemmy.today 26 points 3 days ago
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[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The Brits committed horrific atrocities in India. They pillaged the country and engineered multiple famines.

I recommend the Anarchy by William Darlymple which covers the rise of the British East India company.

They were the Zionists of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, They wrecked the areas they colonised leaving lasting wars and instability up to the present day.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 3 days ago

Never read Churchill essays on the good and bad jews.

[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 21 points 3 days ago
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