Has David Starkey gone mad?

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A Winner Is You

24,983 posts

227 months

Wednesday 21st October 2020
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Murph7355

37,717 posts

256 months

Wednesday 21st October 2020
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A Winner Is You said:
"No longer proportionate".

It was never proportionate and whoever it was who thought it was should now be in the job seekers queue with no pension either.

AJL308

6,390 posts

156 months

Wednesday 21st October 2020
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A Winner Is You said:
Although his words seem very poorly chosen, I doubt he meant them in the context that some people have chosen to promote. It seems as though he was simply making the point that it wasn't a genocide because it came no where near wiping out black people. The use of the word "damn" being included to drive the point home, not in the pejorative sense.

He's far from stupid though and should have chosen his words with far greater care.

Randy Winkman

16,139 posts

189 months

Thursday 22nd October 2020
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AJL308 said:
A Winner Is You said:
Although his words seem very poorly chosen, I doubt he meant them in the context that some people have chosen to promote. It seems as though he was simply making the point that it wasn't a genocide because it came no where near wiping out black people. The use of the word "damn" being included to drive the point home, not in the pejorative sense.

He's far from stupid though and should have chosen his words with far greater care.
Some us us have simply "chosen" to make a logical interpretation of what a "far from stupid" person said. Either way, he's made his own bed.

Vanden Saab

14,099 posts

74 months

Thursday 22nd October 2020
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Murph7355 said:
A Winner Is You said:
"No longer proportionate".

It was never proportionate and whoever it was who thought it was should now be in the job seekers queue with no pension either.
More likely that despite desperately wanting to go ahead it was pointed out that there would be hundreds of their favoured left leaning journalists next in line... Kill whitey being just one example...