re: #194 William Lewis

This is really fucking important to remember. People give the British a pass on a lot of shit when they did really Nazi level evil in India and South Africa and elsewhere.

We can be better.

But only If we really want to live up to those who have pointed the way.

That’s something that got pointed out when there was that whole controversy about the Churchill Bust. Most Americans image of Churchill is of the chain cigar master of the one liner but he was with the exception of his WWII leadership part of the worst excesses of British imperialism and racism. But yeah the Brits as a whole get a bit of a pass. It’s why while obviously I don’t hate the British people or want their government to fail, it is something I wish got more talked about so we can understand the role imperialism, colonialism, and nationalism had in impacting the catastrophic events in Europe that defined the last century there.