Prime Minister Boris Johnson Stirs Culture War Over Churchill Statue

[Zorro]

Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain on Friday stirred a fraught debate over symbols of his country’s past, accusing protesters of seeking to “censor our past” and telling them it was “absurd and shameful” that a statue of Winston Churchill needed to be covered to protect it from being vandalized.

In series of eight Twitter posts, Mr. Johnson lavished praise on the wartime leader and responded to those who recently tore down the statue of a 17th-century slave trader in Bristol by insisting that the country’s imperial history should not be censored or edited.

Mr. Johnson has been on the defensive since the killing by the police of George Floyd in Minneapolis, an act that prompted demonstrations in Britain, including one in London in which protesters daubed the words “was a racist” after Churchill’s name on a statue near Parliament.

Regarded by many as Britain’s greatest leader because of his stewardship of the country during World War II, Churchill was also a fervent imperialist and many historians acknowledge that he expressed racist views.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/world/europe/boris-johnson-Churchill-statue.html

[bobbieinok]

1. Was shocked when I was heard in HS what a neg view he had of Ghandi

[Buzz cook]

2. Gandhi was a little brown man

Who was trying to steal the British Empires stuff. That's how Churchill and his kind thought of the situation.
Many also thought of WWII as the British Empire fighting a bloody war to defend their stuff. So Gandhi was a little brown man trying to steal the stuff that tens of thousands had died defending.

Of course the primes that the colonies and their inhabitants were stuff owned by Britain was a bit flawed.