bbarnett 2 months ago

Not everyone lays the blame at the Prime Minister’s door, however. Churchill biographer Andrew Roberts wrote in an opinion column on Britain’s i news website last year that Churchill “did all he could to relieve the terrible Bengal Famine subject to the exigencies of the Japanese holding Burma and their submarines infesting the Bay of Bengal.”

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  • kennywinker 2 months ago

    I think you'll find even the mustached instigator of ww2 has his defenders.

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    • GJim 2 months ago

      Not only have you invoked Godwin, you have managed to compare Winston Churchill to Hitler!

      That does take a special kind of ignorance.

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      • kennywinker 2 months ago

        > Not only have you invoked Godwin

        Nah that only happens if you use the h work or the other-n-word.

        > you have managed to compare Winston Churchill to Hitler!

        Oh no! The Godwin threshold has been breached! Awooga awooga!

        It's almost like I did that intentionally. Let's think for a moment why that might be an appropriate comparison: first they were historical opponents, on opposite sides of a conflict. Hitler is the bad guy, and at least in most people's minds Churchill was the good guy. But Churchill is also responsible for somewhere in the region of 1 million deaths due to treating another group as less than human. Which means any portrayal of him as the "good guy" is choosing to ignore, discredit, or diminish the value of those lives. Murder by imperialism and bureaucracy is still murder, just apparently easier to get away with.

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