Fraternal Twins: Churchill and Hitler are Opposites Only in Eurocentric White Supremacist Fantasies
If you don't see Hitler's and Churchill's worldviews as closely matched and crimes as comparable, it's only because you were raised in white supremacy. Besides, it's time we decolonized WW2 history
Let me start by stating the (MF) obvious: I am not writing this to minimize Hitler’s crimes or lunacy (like a totalitarian, sinister church, hegemony seeks to weaken us by forcing us to endlessly defend ourselves against accusations of thought crimes or hate crimes we never committed, in the hope we internalize them and feel automatically guilty to such a degree we become morally, and therefore politically and emotionally, paralyzed). I am writing this to bring Churchill’s crimes, by force and provocation, if I have to, into the conversation.
Generally, I see the process of expanding the conversations as vital and a major debt to egalitarianism; as regards Churchill in particular, since he has taken such a laughably central place in ‘soft‘ or ‘permissible‘ white supremacy, as expressed in Eurocentric, and now increasingly ‘Judeo-Christian‘ telling of history, it is crucial to deconstruct and reconstruct his image based on real facts and morality, rather than the habitual racist political mysticism.
The clinical exclusion of Churchill’s heavy, genocidal, white-supremacist crimes from formal historical memory must not be allowed to continue. This cleansing makes a mockery of his very real victims and their descendants and communities. This cleansing also reflects, without needing much further evidence, that Nazism and mainstream white colonizer cultures are much closer in nature than reflected in acceptable discourse.
Things are well-known and well documented
Curchill’s crimes are not a secret. They have been covered extensively in books, TV series, academic research, and blog posts, and even by establishment media outlets. A short list inclused Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes, by Tariq Ali, the excellent blog post The crimes of Winston Churchill by the user The Crimes of Britain, the article Winston Churchill — war criminal, enemy of humanity & decency by Indian scholar Shashi Tharoor, Analysis: 5 of the worst crimes of Winston Churchill by Ben Wray, Why can't Britain handle the truth about Winston Churchill? by Priyamvada Gopal, and the hilariously titled and framed The 10 greatest controversies of Winston Churchill's career. A good head left-wing assessment of Churchill’s character and career can be found in The Real Winston Churchill by Richard Symour.
This is by no means a complete list, but it’s more than enough, believe me, to know what kind of character Churchill really was. And let me say, using all my nonexistent British sense of understatement: it’s not as advertised.
The biggest crimes cited and some of the most outrageously idiotic quotes by Churchill
During his many years as a British public servant during the rapid collapse of the British empire, many Indigenous communities were unlucky enough to experience his cruelty and nonchalant inhumanity firsthand. Yet some of the most massive historical crimes committed by Churchill (on behalf of a white racist murderous thriving empire) always stand out. He played a central role in sending The Black and Tans into Ireland in 1921, the Bengal Famine of 1943, and the bloody suppression of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950s. To those we can add Churchill’s support for the destruction and dehumanization of Palestinians, aks Zionism.
Winston Churchill played a major role in the deaths of many millions of people simply out of his ardent support for the white imperialist British empire, and his hatred of poor and working-class people.
Some of his quotes reveal his soul in all its ingloriousness:
‘The multiplication of the feeble-minded is a very terrible danger to the race’, he said in support of eugenics (Churchill was vice president of the British Eugenics Society).
‘I will not pretend that, if I had to choose between communism and nazism, I would choose communism.’ (speaking in the House of Commons, autumn 1937).
‘I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes.’ (1919, as president of the air council)
‘I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race... has come in and taken its place.’ (addressing the Palestine Royal Commission, 1937)
‘The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with a steady restriction among all 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.’ (in a letter to British PM Asquith, 1911)
‘One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as admirable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations.’ From his Great Contemporaries, 1937
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A great and intriguing mystery: why Churchill is so passionately loved and idolized by charlatan racist populists of the white supremacist persuasion
Short answer: because he was one of them.
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