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Can't see anything wrong in making fun of the powerful, that's what comedy is mostly about. It is also the main way we turn these people back into human beings instead of the carefully curated image they wanted to show to the world, with their good and evil deeds.

Then don't sound petty about it with offhand insults, otherwise you come off as just being upset, not comedic. Which is usually not in good taste, especially if you're trying to make a point about being a good person.

He killed millions by causing a famine, taking rice that was then stored and never used.

“ cabinet was warned repeatedly that the exhaustive use of Indian resources for the war effort could result in famine, but it opted to continue exporting rice from India to elsewhere in the empire.” https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/winston-church...

Not everyone lays the blame at the Prime Minister’s door, however. Churchill biographer Andrew Roberts wrote in an opinion column on Britain’s i news website last year that Churchill “did all he could to relieve the terrible Bengal Famine subject to the exigencies of the Japanese holding Burma and their submarines infesting the Bay of Bengal.”

Two things.

1. That article doesn't say Churchill killed millions by causing a famine. 2. Amp? Really? Is amp still a thing?

Churchill was a terrible politician but an effective leader and an able administrator. It's the politician aspect of him that usually gets ridiculed.

Churchill was a genocidal monster. Just deal with it.

> Churchill did a great service to us all.

Maybe we stop hero worshipping and learn the real history? https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/29/asia/churchill-bengal-famine-...

Not everyone lays the blame at the Prime Minister’s door, however. Churchill biographer Andrew Roberts wrote in an opinion column on Britain’s i news website last year that Churchill “did all he could to relieve the terrible Bengal Famine subject to the exigencies of the Japanese holding Burma and their submarines infesting the Bay of Bengal.”

I think you'll find even the mustached instigator of ww2 has his defenders.

Not only have you invoked Godwin, you have managed to compare Winston Churchill to Hitler!

That does take a special kind of ignorance.

> Not only have you invoked Godwin

Nah that only happens if you use the h work or the other-n-word.

> you have managed to compare Winston Churchill to Hitler!

Oh no! The Godwin threshold has been breached! Awooga awooga!

It's almost like I did that intentionally. Let's think for a moment why that might be an appropriate comparison: first they were historical opponents, on opposite sides of a conflict. Hitler is the bad guy, and at least in most people's minds Churchill was the good guy. But Churchill is also responsible for somewhere in the region of 1 million deaths due to treating another group as less than human. Which means any portrayal of him as the "good guy" is choosing to ignore, discredit, or diminish the value of those lives. Murder by imperialism and bureaucracy is still murder, just apparently easier to get away with.