A racist, a hypocrite, a terrible judge of character: Winston Churchill recast.

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2. "Which contributions to history do we celebrate?"

For starters, the fact that we're looking at a statue of Winston Churchill in that photo instead of one of Hitler.

It's sadly ironic that we live in a time where comparing the people with whom we disagree with (Even over the most trivial of matters in some instances) to Hitler and the Nazis comes as naturally and easily to some as the act of breathing itself, and yet it's done without any real understanding of who Hitler really was, or the actual peril the world was in at the height of his power.

Yeah, Winston Churchill certainly was a "racist, homophobe, white cis male oppressor/colonizer extraordinaire" by our incredibly infallible, morally pristine, thoroughly objective research standards of today. But Hitler was evil incarnate, and a victory by his malignant empire in WW2 would have turned our world into a graveyard such as the world has never seen for anyone who didn't look into a mirror every day and see Dolph Lundgren staring back at them. Winston Churchill inspired his nation to fight against (All alone, I might add, in 1940) and defeat that evil against considerable odds. To me, that makes me more willing to examine some of the more unpleasant aspects of his personalty and beliefs and place them in some kind of historical context.

However, that's just unfashionable me, I suppose.