seeing as he’s now on every five pound note in the uk please remember that winston churchill:
- believed that the Aryan stock [was] bound to triumph against nonwhite nations - was strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes - said that “indians” were a beastly people with a beastly religion - justified colonialism and the mass murder of black + indigenous people because white people were a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race - referred to palestinians as barbaric hoards who ate little but camel dung - referred to black people almost exclusively as savages and blackamoors - described islam as a form of madness
for crying out loud his own secretary of state didn’t see much difference between his outlook and Hitler’s
this is not a man you should idolise as a great leader. this is a violent racist who we like to brush under the carpet because that’s what britain does best.
Don’t forget he also advocated for euthanasia for people with learning disabilities: “The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feebleminded and insane classes, coupled as it is with a steady restriction among the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks, constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate… I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed up before another year has passed.“
Also, he didn’t want women to have the right to vote.
