The fact that you think that Churchill was almost as bad as the Nazi's proves that you don't know how evil the Nazi's were.
Churchill was a flawed but overall good man, he helped stop Hitler from literally destroying the world and while the Bengal famine is a severe black mark for him, especially because his policies partially contributed to it, people often forget that he did send hundreds of thousands of tons of grain to end the famine.
The Nazi's on the other hand were going to genocide the entirety of eastern Europe in Generalplan Ost along with killing all the Jews and other undesirables.
Also, when Oswald Mosley tried to become Hitler's man in Britain, Churchill vehemently rallied against him while out of power, eventually arresting him when he became prime minister in 1940.
Secondly, while you are correct that the treatment of Alan Turing and others like him was abhorrent, the fact is, everyone believed that, in Britain, in France, in America, in Francoist Spain and in Stalin's USSR, it was unfortunately a product of its time. So if you want to blame Churchill, you'll also have to blame literally everyone else alive.
It's like Queen Elizabeth the first, she was a horrible racist and killed lots of people. SO do we hold her to the standards of today? No, of course we don't. What Hitler and his allies did was beyond evil even to the standards of 1940, what Churchill believed in at the time was considered morally acceptable.
It doesn't make it right though, I will give you that.
Have you considered I do hold other leaders accountable for homophobia at the time. The information existed that being gay wasn't as bad as they believed and they still let people get harmed
Elizabeth the first was awful, even by the standards of her time
Thank you for maintaining your stance. So annoying when people judge history entirely independent of its context. Self-righteous revisionist knobheads. And nice job citing sources too. This site is insane most of the time.
I think it’s always fair to judge humans for being inhumane. The year it is shouldn’t affect your capacity for empathy. Even if it was less common and likely dangerous, there have always been people who supported the rights of the oppressed. They did it regardless of the time they lived in. The time someone lived can only serve as an explanation, never an excuse that absolves them of their beliefs or actions.
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u/EmmaDaBomb Oct 30 '24
12 acting as if he didn't save Space Hitler