In case you haven’t noticed, the UK Guardian is a vastly left leaning news out, and they aren’t afraid to show it. They consistently take a hard left line on everything. They are also one of the leading Cult of Climastrology papers in the world. They are one of the few who consistently have articles about ‘climate change’. Well, incoming!
Thousands Sign Petition to Shut Down Guardian over Links to Slavery, Anti-Lincoln Propaganda
The British left’s flagship newspaper is facing the call to eat its own tail, after more than 12,000 people have signed a petition calling for the liberal, pro-Black Lives Matter Guardian to be shut down over its historical links to slavery and for siding with the Confederate states during the American Civil War.
The Change.org petition to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) already has more than 12,000 signatures with the number growing hourly, spurred on by accusations against the newspaper of hypocrisy for backing the far-left BLM while having a history connected to slavery.
The call comes after far-left activists have demanded the removal of statues of prominent figures in British history who may have profited from slavery, supported colonialism, or even have been wrongly accused of extremism.
The Guardian had published pieces in the past admitting not only did it print anti-Lincoln propaganda, but said Manchester’s working-class mill workers who refused to touch plantation cotton — in solidarity with black American slaves — should be effectively subjected to slavery themselves and forced back to work.
The then-named Manchester Guardian was founded in 1821 by John Edward Taylor, who profited from cotton plantation slavery, according to political website Guido Fawkes. After he died in 1844, the newspaper continued its relationship with the slave trade, making money from the slave-backing cotton mill owners of Manchester who paid for advertising.
During Black History Month in 2008, The Guardian published a letter revealing that the newspaper had printed confederate propaganda against Abraham Lincoln in October 1862, writing that “it was an evil day both for America and the world when he was chosen President of the United Statesâ€.
See, it doesn’t matter that this was well over 150 years: Cancel Culture never forgets, and past transgressions must be the cause of current day destruction. It doesn’t matter if the transgressor is an A+ ally: they must be destroyed. If something came out about CNN, Media Matters, Daily Kos, and so forth, the SJWs would go hard at them.
Even though I think this is nuts, and the Guardian shouldn’t be punished for things so long ago, hey, they’ve asked for this with their hardcore Modern Socialism. They refuse to allow counter-voices to be hear, especially in the climate section. They advocate for other outlets in the UK and around the world to shut down climate skeptics, and anyone else who doesn’t toe the line. So, this is rather ironic, and they’re getting a taste of what they give.
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