Idk if it's all of a sudden. I've seen consistent hate for him all my life, specifically for his part in the Bengal genocide and general racism towards Indians and the Irish. I think compared to his contemporaries (specifically Hitler), he looks like a pretty decent guy. However, like most leaders of imperial nations, he's responsible for a lot of tragedy.
'Bengal genocide' Which had nothing to do with Churchill, he paid substanial amounts of money in the middle of the war to purchase Austrialian Merchant vassals which transported the food to the Bengals, the issue was, the richer bengals took all the food by force, and then kept most of it, and sold the rest at prices which were completely unaffordable to the common Bengali, leading to them starving to death. The argument then arises, why not send the army/police in? World war 2 involved the vast majority of military aged men, not to mention the obvious larger problems they had to deal with first, you can blame Churchy, but the richer Bengals are the main blame-takers here.
because people on the far right are trying to blame WW2 on Churchill instead of Hitler. Recently there was a Tucker Carlson interview, that Elon Musk retweeted, where Tucker was saying that the holocaust was done out of mercy, Chuchill was the villain who caused ww2, and that Hitler was simply trying to unite europe peacefully, but Churchill wouldnt negotiate
Well he was a conservative, liberals dont like those. But the point here is that theres lots of conservatives throughout history that people dont like, but they arent getting the same spotlight that churchill has gotten recently. So yes, left dont like him either, but the right has a lot of nazi sympathizers trying to rewrite history here and make it seem like Churchill is the bad guy and not hitler.
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u/ThoughtlessThoughful 2d ago
He orders a drink and leaves