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Re: re: NPS Competition
Gratuitous insult? Simply an observation. If you're going to suggest changing the name of Nathan Philips Square without even understanding his significance, then yes, your credibility is definitely going to suffer.
How can anyone take your suggestions seriously when you demonstrate such a complete lack of knowledge on the issue at hand?
I always try to back up what I post with facts. I don't know where this "for once" is coming from.
These are not slanderous insults. Churchill was one of the biggest opponents of Indian Independence. Churchill's attitude towards Indians and other minorities is well documented:
On rising Hindu-Muslim tensions (fostered to great extent by their divide and conquer strategy):
"Oh, but that is all to the good"
On Gandhi:
"a half-naked fakir" who "ought to be laid, bound hand and foot, at the gates of Delhi and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new viceroy seated on its back"
"Gandhi-ism and all it stands for will, sooner or later, have to be grappled with and finally crushed"
Leo Ameres, Secretary of State for India, noted in his diary that Churchill said:
"I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion."
On the use of chemical warfare:
"[I advocate] using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes [and] against recalcitrant Arabs as an experiment. [I do not understand] the squeamishness about the use of gas [...] We cannot in any circumstances acquiesce in the non-utilisation of any weapons which are available to procure a speedy termination of the disorder which prevails on the frontier."
So, I think you'll forgive me for questioning a man who led the fight against facism yet had no problem with the oppression of countless others.
Maybe you should do some background research before you post. "For once".
Comments like this bring down the level of integrity here, not to mention your own 'credibility'. Stay out of the thread if you have nothing other than gratuitous insults to offer!
Gratuitous insult? Simply an observation. If you're going to suggest changing the name of Nathan Philips Square without even understanding his significance, then yes, your credibility is definitely going to suffer.
How can anyone take your suggestions seriously when you demonstrate such a complete lack of knowledge on the issue at hand?
Prove it. If you're going to freely lob around slanderous insults, back them up *for once*. Prove that Winston Churchill was "racist".
I always try to back up what I post with facts. I don't know where this "for once" is coming from.
These are not slanderous insults. Churchill was one of the biggest opponents of Indian Independence. Churchill's attitude towards Indians and other minorities is well documented:
On rising Hindu-Muslim tensions (fostered to great extent by their divide and conquer strategy):
"Oh, but that is all to the good"
On Gandhi:
"a half-naked fakir" who "ought to be laid, bound hand and foot, at the gates of Delhi and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new viceroy seated on its back"
"Gandhi-ism and all it stands for will, sooner or later, have to be grappled with and finally crushed"
Leo Ameres, Secretary of State for India, noted in his diary that Churchill said:
"I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion."
On the use of chemical warfare:
"[I advocate] using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes [and] against recalcitrant Arabs as an experiment. [I do not understand] the squeamishness about the use of gas [...] We cannot in any circumstances acquiesce in the non-utilisation of any weapons which are available to procure a speedy termination of the disorder which prevails on the frontier."
So, I think you'll forgive me for questioning a man who led the fight against facism yet had no problem with the oppression of countless others.
Maybe you should do some background research before you post. "For once".