- Re: AAV Take Archived Message
- Piers Morgan is a hysterical ........ - johnlilburne January 30, 2019, 11:55 pm
- AAV Take - johnlilburne January 30, 2019, 11:58 pm
Posted by Ian M
on January 31, 2019, 11:35 am, in reply to "AAV Take"
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Deeply unpleasant attempt to silence and beat down critical thinking. AAV said many of the things on my mind after watching it. The point about 'white supremacy' which had that awful conformist Suzanna Reid frothing at the mouth and violating Godwin's Law made me think of that Churchill quote about Israel & Palestine: 'I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. 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.' - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=40602 (discussing the source) Could you ask for a more clear-cut example of white supremacism? I notice that even the BBC listed 'the 10 greatest controversies of Winston Churchill's career' in 2015, which included this quote (interestingly without the first two sentences) among lots of other examples and some hilarious cartwheel-turning apologetics from hack historians and fanboy biographers like Boris Johnson: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29701767 But clearly it suits imperial chauvinism to paint critical views as 'a completely isolated, unique version of history' because 'everybody celebrates Sir Winston Churchill as a hero' and to do otherwise is 'really offensive', an 'equivalence with Hitler' (Reid) or 'disgusting' (Morgan). jeers, I |
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