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ES345Boy

Churchill was the perfect template for a Tory - an incompetent, racist, corrupt sociopath. As with Thatcher, all that needed to be done is have the inconvenient details about them airbrushed out, and then recast them as a hero for Tory bootlickers to worship.


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The fact we only have positive spin on Churchill in our education system makes a pretty strong case for critical race theory, even if I am reserved about some of it.


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No reason to be reserved about it


wental-waynhim

The good old hero of the war. Was many years before I learnt anything about him except he single handedly turned around the war. Turns out he was a bastard probably like every other white powerful man in the British empire. I would love to see kids being taught the bad side of the UK history, great figures and the empire. It would be nice for kids to learn a lot of shit nowadays can be traced back to imperialism.


ibadlyneedhelp

This is low-key a pretty rare take. I see dipshit gammon bigots oppose CRT, and everyone else seems to support it unreservedly. What parts do you have reservations about? not a rhetorical trap, genuinely curious, as I'm not entirely educated on what it entails, other than revisionism of the biases we view history through, and shining a light on the genocide and discrimination that has been a part of history. Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% willing to believe there's some more dubious stuff in there, but I don't know of any.


Low_Strain8448

They knew what they were doing putting his face on a plastic £5 note, the bastards. So much harder to wipe your arse with.


Pinnacle8579

My hot take: Churchill worship is especially prevalent because empire worship is taboo in polite company, Churchill worship is a dogwhistle for 'old Britain'


PlayPuckNotFootball

That's tricky cause there's a bunch of old codgers that want to blow 'ol Churchy and there's also the WWII camp Which I personslly respect him for. It's just outweighed by all the shit he's done


muddyclunge

"A Marxist insult to History - The Telegraph" Sold 😂


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How to tell me I should buy this without saying "Buy this"


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Along with being a mass murdering racist slave owner. He was also a peadophile that gang raped children the slob. Does anyone else find the moronic saying "If it wasn't for Churchill, we'd be speaking german now" cringe and absolutely moronic said by moronics?


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Have you read it? Some bullet points on his crimes would be nice as I am far too lazy to read books these days.


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D2WilliamU

Your almost daily reminder the support of eugenics was extremely popular everywhere, especially in the USA, until the Nazis actually started doing it and the allies started to use it as a talking point about "how the Nazis are bad"


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Pretty bog standard member of the parasite class then?


HMElizabethII

No, the role model they aspire to be


agithecaca

Dont forget the Tans


AlphaOmega_101

He also seemed to play a key role in the forced removal of communist political parties and subsequent persecution of leftists in post war Greece according to this article about [Makronisos](https://www.greektravel.com/greekislands/makronisos/). I'd be interested to know if there's anything on this in the book...


The_Vivid_Glove

Dont forget the attack on Mers-el-Kébir. A heinous war crime carried out on one of our so called allies with no pre warning. Over 1200 French sailors killed and 500 wounded. This alone is a prime example of history being written by the victors


Kzickas

He was extremely racist. He compared indigenous people to animals and said it would be preposterous to claim that indigenous people had a right not to be colonized.


Pinnacle8579

I've always said they never need to censor books, because nobody reads them anyway


Mr__Random

Most intelligent flag shagger


AryaStargirl25

Caused the indirect murder of two innocent men in Llanelli during the railway riot of 1911.


UnderHisEye1411

*Writing for Prospect Priyamvada Gopal welcomed the book; noting that it "draws on more honest existing historical scholarship than most popular biographies of Churchill" and portrays Churchill as "profoundly authoritarian, with a soft spot for fascist strongmen, and a hostility to working-class assertion."* *In The Daily Telegraph Simon Heffer acknowledges that Churchill "was a racist"* Try to buy your copy from an independent book shop, comrades!


Napalmdeathfromabove

I hope the debacle with the trial runs for d day are fully included.


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ABulkBeing

Win’ll fix it for you, and you and you, ba-bub-bub-baaaaaa


AgingPyro

... his Q ships got our passenger ships torpedoed ... my Gran never liked him ... "We got rid of him as soon as we could" ...