Churchill controversy

Awhile back, some famous Brit had to apologize for his praise of Churchill because of political pressure from the PC mob.

The people who complained that Churchill was guilty of genocide were referring to his policies that led to a major famine in India during World War II.

However, this was not a deliberate genocide like the Ukrainian famine of Stalin as much as a careless one that was a side effect of a policy that had a different purpose.  

The reason behind the famine was similar to the careless genocide of Ireland during the potato famine, made worse by exporting Irish grain to feed the poor of England, or the genocide of Mao's great leap forward, which was caused by policies that didn't work and the pressure on local officials to pretend they were working, both of which killed millions).

The streets of eastern Indian cities were lined with corpses, yet instead of sending emergency food shipments Churchill used the wheat and ships at his disposal to build stockpiles for feeding postwar Britain and Europe. 

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one is reminded of Camus' observation:

“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn’t the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.”

― Albert Camus