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Why do we glorify horrible people from the distant past?
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...The US with Winston Churchill.
—Actually I don't know the history surrounding Churchill, I know someone once asked in a r/explainlikeimfive reddit post, but all that I really remember was that he was super-conservative.
What he did to India is akin to what Belgium did to the Congo. He was also extremely racist, said Indians are "a beastly people with a beastly religion", Arabs are "a lower manifestation than the jews" who "only eat camel shit". The Jews, who he thought implanted communism in Russia as part of a conspiracy to control the world (same thing the Nazis said).
When defending the Israel plan of displacing Palestinian people, he said:
And of course Asians wouldn't be left out: "I hate people with slit eyes and pigtails. I don't like the look of them or the smell of them"