“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 the dog in the manger has the final right to the

2 years ago by Aral Balkan to c/history

“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 the dog in the manger has the final right to the manger, though he may have lain there for a very long time.”

– Winston Churchill, UK prime minister and honorary US citizen (by act of Congress). Voted greatest Briton of all time in 2002 BBC poll.

https://anarcholatina.blackblogs.org/...

#colonialism #racism #apartheid #genocide #UK #USA #America #Germany #Israel

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Tooden 2 points 2 years ago

@aral@mastodon.ar.al He wasn't a very nice persoon.

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aral 2 points 2 years ago

@Tooden@aus.social Understatement of the century :)

But the key point is that it’s not just him. Almost half a million British people voted him greatest Briton of all time just two decades ago.

There’s a reason the west has been unabashedly arming a genocide in Palestine for the past year.

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Tooden 2 points 2 years ago

@aral@mastodon.ar.al They do respond well to the whip, don't they?

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greenWhale 2 points 2 years ago

@aral@mastodon.ar.al @Tooden@aus.social he was contemplating sending the navy to Liverpool to break the strikes too. Utter asshole of a person.

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kyonshi 1 point 2 years ago

@aral@mastodon.ar.al he mostly shines in comparison to the other world leaders of the time. Which doesn't say much.

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Kierkegaanks 1 point 2 years ago

@aral@mastodon.ar.al typical of gingers

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