• CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Honestly even right wing politicans from a decade ago are left wing compared to the current political climate in the UK. Churchill is probably a socialist now or something.

    • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Hmm…

      “Churchill held a hierarchical perspective on race, believing white Protestant Christians to be at the top of this hierarchy, and white Catholics beneath them, while Indians were higher on this hierarchy than black Africans.”

      "Churchill saw British imperialism as a form of altruism that benefited its subject peoples because “by conquering and dominating other peoples, the British were also elevating and protecting them”

      “Churchill stated that the “great barbaric nations” would “menace civilised nations”, and that “The Aryan stock is bound to triumph””

      On the matter of Jews conquering Palestine: "I do not agree… for example, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not agree 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.

      “During a White House lunch in May 1943 Churchill said “why be apologetic about Anglo-Saxon superiority, that we were superior?””

      In 1955, Churchill expressed his support for the slogan “Keep England White” with regards to immigration from the West Indies

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Winston_Churchill

      Etc