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[whatthehey]

15. And yet the outrage is just about the attribution, NOT the context.

Many people, especially here, have criticized historical British imperial and colonial attitudes too, but is this statement then false or not worth consideration in historical context? I see the same sentiments on DU, less well expressed.

'Mr. Eden declared: "We English have had experience in ruling," then the only thing one can say is: "In ruling? In exploitation! In plundering!" What does experience in ruling mean, when in a country which, with 46,000,000 persons itself, is administering 40,000,000 square kilometers over the entire world...

...Where is this art of ruling, to say nothing of the art of leadership? It is only the unscrupulousness for robbery. And when this same man then says: "We have a fine instinct for idealism and material values." Yes indeed they have. They have destroyed idealism everywhere, and they have grabbed and taken possession of material worth and always grabbed and taken possession of it, too, by brutal force only. For in 300 years that nation has oppressed and yoked and subjected nation after nation, people after people, race after race.

If they were really such brilliant rulers, then they should now be able to leave after the Indian people have expressed their explicit desire that they do, and then to wait and see whether the Indians call them back again.'

The Indians have not done so so it was certainly insightful at the time, and since this is the prevailing DU opinion of colonialism, few would say it's not worth consideration.

I honestly don't know what quote she was referring to - newspaper accounts AND DU threads are gallingly and intentionally oblique. If it's the frequent simple lie propaganda bit you cite then it's a profound enough truth. Profundity does not necessitate originality of topic. Does it apply to PP? Well not from our POV no not at all. But from the viewpoint of one who is convinced killing an embryo kills a human soul, then (again to them, assuredly not me, to whom abortion is simply a routine elective procedure and the human soul a silly imaginary construct) all attempts to excuse such an action must by definition be oft-repeated lies and propaganda.