Yup, racist psychopathy is bred into the leadership class, and the rest of us if we let it.

More on Churchill's attitude in this instance from John Newsinger fyi. I've prob posted it before...

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https://socialistworker.co.uk/in-depth/british-state-racism-led-to-millions-of-famine-deaths/

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Linlithgow was replaced as Viceroy by a military man, Field Marshal Wavell.

Prime minister Winston Churchill assumed Wavell would share his lack of concern for the fate of the Indian people. On his arrival, Wavell actually toured the streets of Calcutta incognito and was shocked by the suffering he saw.

He was appalled by the failure to provide effective famine relief and set about trying to remedy the situation. He could feed Calcutta, but at a level just barely able to keep people alive. Many survived—if that is the right word—on a ration of 800 calories a day.

In the countryside, however, people still starved to death in their thousands.

Wavell asked the Churchill government to provide urgent assistance and to ship emergency food supplies to India.

To his horror, Churchill put every obstacle that he could in the way. On one occasion when Wavell pleaded for assistance in person, Churchill responded that Indians bred “like rabbits” anyway.

As far as Wavell was concerned, if it was a European famine, the government would give “quite a different answer to the one that we get”.

Churchill actually told Wavell that Indians starving was “less serious than sturdy Greeks”. This was all hardly surprising when Churchill said that Indians were “the beastliest people in the world next to the Germans” and that Hindus in particular were “a foul race”. Even his Secretary of State for India, Leo Amery, was worried by Churchill’s “curious hatred of India” and concluded that he was “not quite normal on the subject”.

Indeed, on one occasion, he actually told Churchill that he did not “see much difference between his outlook and Hitler’s”. These conclusions, it is important to note, were not those of some “woke” liberal, but those of a right wing reactionary champion of British Imperialism.

The Bengal Famine has been pretty much written out of the history books.

It is too big a crime to be compatible with the idea that the Empire was in any way a force for good and so was forgotten. The terrible deaths of millions was effectively cancelled by the British ruling class and its agents.

Only in the last few years has it begun to be so much as acknowledged. Even today it is usually ignored or mentioned in passing as an event of not much importance.