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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill

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Churchill was a very curious case… absolutely committed to colonial domination, racist to the core (“I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes”) and all kinds of other well-documented atrocities that mark him down as a war criminal or worse.

Yet his writings (sometimes) portray a man of surprising sensitivity. This in no way compensates, of course, but it is… surprising.
 
Churchill was a very curious case… absolutely committed to colonial domination, racist to the core (“I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes”) and all kinds of other well-documented atrocities that mark him down as a war criminal or worse.

Yet his writings (sometimes) portray a man of surprising sensitivity. This in no way compensates, of course, but it is… surprising.
I've even read some of his fiction. American mother comes through, esp as Jennnie had some Native American blood. I think he was nuerodivergent in the same way as my eldest son who could hold whole chapters of books in his head for a week (he was writing novels by age 8) but couldnt write them out by hand. He had to dictate. Churchill also would wake his secretary in the middle of the night to say something like "On page eight paragraph four change the word attack to fight." I like the man. Hero's can be flawed. Why do we want flawed villains, but unflawed, ubermensch heroes?
 
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