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I laughed out loud at this.

An alternate opinion column could be: “One time, Adolf was an aspiring artist. Winston on the other hand, had rich parents, just like Osama Bin Laden.”

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Winston Churchill was a genuinely awful human being and a war criminal prior to WWII.

He lucked out by also being a moderately competent wartime leader, who gets to be juxtaposed against Hitler for eternity.

Also, Brett Stephens is a bed bug and has a terrible track record of properly handling public backlash to his writing. I hope dark days are ahead for him.

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Yeah I know he’s not an angel and is in the example specifically due to the juxtaposition.

I understand someone brings this up everytime Churchill is mentioned in a good light, so out of curiosity: who would be a better comparable figurehead? Joseph? Franklin? Neville? Albert?

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Churchill is fine to use. People keep trying to go back and just shit on everything, at some point you have to just move on. He literarily helped defeat Hitler, that has to count for something.

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Also, Brett Stephens is a bed bug

Wow we’re just going to allow blatant antisemitism on here /s

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