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Douglas Murray: "An English school no longer wants to bear the name of Churchill: what a cocktail of ignorance and arrogance!"

2021-02-12T15:04:16.300Z


FIGAROVOX / INTERVIEW - In England, a school decided to remove Winston Churchill's name from its building due to its defense of the British Empire. The successful essayist Douglas Murray, author of The Great Unreason (The Gunner) is grieved by the power of the new militants ...


Douglas Murray, British journalist and essayist.

He is notably the author of

La Grande Déraison - Race, genre, identity

(Éd. L'Artilleur, October 2020), a bestseller in Great Britain.

He is currently a visiting scholar at the conservative Danube Institute think-tank in Budapest.

FIGAROVOX.- After his statue was tagged in London during protests after the death of George Floyd, Winston Churchill's name was removed from a school, arguing that Churchill was racist.

What does this event inspire you?

What do we blame Churchill for?

Douglas MURRAY.

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This is madness.

A very loud group of historical revisionist activists decided they had the right to go through history and decide who the good guys and bad guys were.

The “

good guys

” are those who they believe fought for LGBT rights, women's rights and especially racial equality.

Everything else is misogynist, racist, fascist and homophobic.

Unsurprisingly, most of the characters

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Source: lefigaro

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