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The truth? Our empire killed millions
A reply to Niall Ferguson
We are still a nation locked in denial. If you point out basic facts about the British Empire – that the British deliberately adopted policies that caused as many as 29 million Indians to starve to death in the late nineteenth century, say – you smack into a wall of incomprehension and rage. The historian Niall Ferguson called me “Hari the horrible” for writing about this in my column last week. Another neo-imperialist historian, Lawrence James, accuses me in the Sunday Times of being a “twerp” who writes “twaddle”. The Daily Mail says I should “check your facts”.
http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=909
I think John Hari’s article is quite different from Eric Alterman’s or P.J. O’Rourke’s article in the fact that it is not a satire or poking fun at our ideological counterparts, but it is a dire warning of how insane the people who share the levers of power.
After seeing so much of this crap on the right:
http://www.brain-terminal.com/
http://hotair.com/
I’m so happy to see the Left doing it as well.