Thousands Sign Petition to Shut Down Guardian over Links to Slavery, Anti-Lincoln Propaganda

Breitbart ^ | June 17 2020 | VICTORIA FRIEDMAN

[MAGAthon]

15,000+ signatures now.
https://www.change.org/p/independent-press-standards-organisation-shut-down-the-guardian-newspaper?recruiter=437051766

[yoe]

People are so illiterate when it comes to history or facts. Slavery is as old as mankind and on every piece of land on this planet. Slaves, help, indentured help, servants, call extra human help what you will but for the Lord's sake learn some facts about life. American ignorance as well as Brittish ignorance is glaring....on this side of the pond...Abe Lincoln was a white supremacist; he wanted to send all Africans back to Africa. Native Americans had slaves; the Inuit/Eskimo had slaves....they enslaved indigenous people from other tribes....that went on world wide from time immemorial.

Pulling down statues isn't going to change the fact that SLAVERY is as old as mankind. Get over it BLM...antifa, slavery has nothing to do with your kind of thuggery.

[dfwgator]

The other one is “Native Americans”, they migrated here too, and displaced other tribes when they came here.

[yoe]

Florida in the 1500s had not only native Americans, French, Spanish, probably from ship wrecks; run-away slaves of mixed blood, heaven only knows how they got (to those shores) could have been ships, hurricanes, rafts...

[nwrep]

Yes, but it is a mealy-mouthed way of saying it. They actively supported it. In fact, that was the very reason for the founding of the Dem party.

[ifinnegan]

“Yes, but it is a mealy-mouthed way of saying it. They actively supported it. In fact, that was the very reason for the founding of the Dem party.”

I agree.

Whoever wrote it was trying to obfuscate it without overtly lying.

[5th MEB]

So go on Wikipedia and change it; it’s my understanding that any body with an internet connection can get on and change any thing they like.

(correct me if I am wrong)

[5th MEB]

Slavery is still VERY COMMON in NORTH AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST.

The prog/lib/left/antifa/blm/democrats don’t seem to upset about that.

[Winniesboy]

...Yet it was the Manchester Guardian as it then was, which led the campaign for the British Government to facilitate the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine: a campaign which resulted in the Balfour Declaration. It was the friendship between C P Scott, the editor, and Chaim Weizmann which made this possible.

There are all sorts of skeletons in the cupboards of long-established newspapers.