Google blacks out Winston Churchill

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Winston Churchill, and his war cabinet, were indeed responsible for millions

of deaths in Bengal—somewhere between 1.5 and 3 million deaths by famine. 

Madhusree Mukerjee examines Churchill's stance and policy exhaustively in

her book, Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India

During World War II (Basic Books, 2010). She paraphrases her discoveries in

this highly nuanced interview in Harper's: 

https://harpers.org/2010/11/churchills-dark-side-six-questions-for-madhusree-mukerjee/  

That's apparently why Google literally—but only briefly—blacked out Churchill's 

image, both in its comprehensive picture gallery of Britain's prime ministers, and 

in its picture gallery of the major national leaders during World War II.

So Google did not black out any other British prime minister—not Robert Peel,

in spite of his complicity in the Irish famine that killed a million people in 1845; not

Benjamin Disraeli and Lord Palmerston, despite their Opium Wars with China, the

casualties of which included some 10 million opium-addicted Chinese people (a

crime that later PM William Gladstone found abhorrent); and not David Lloyd George, 

in spite of his complicity in starting, and prolonging, World War I, a slaughter that

eventually killed 20 million people. 

Nor did Google black out the images of Adolph Hitler or Josef Stalin, but only

Churchill's, evidently because "black lives matter" (as if Hitler didn't see black

people as "half-born apes"). 

Google's black-out was discussed by these two British rightists, who—despite 

their seeming unawareness of (if not indifference to) the history of Churchill's 

wartime India policy, and their mistaken view that Google took that step because 

some zealous "woke" types pushed them into it (and not because the world's 

most powerful corporations are all hailing BLM for propaganda purposes)—

make some good points. (It may have been their video that prompted Google to 

reverse itself, as of five hours ago.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy4G2xUgXU4

This mad PC erasure of the past—now including HBO's blacking out Gone with 

the Wind—is, to say the obvious, straight out of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four,

whose doomed hero, Winston Smith, does exactly that, day after day, as an

Outer Party member working for the Ministry of Truth.   

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hbo-max-removes-gone-wind-1297806 

And while "the left" is vandalizing statues, and getting people fired for making

taboo statements, even privately, We the People everywhere are bickering in the 

ever-spreading shadow of a global fascist order unlike anything the world has 

seen before.

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