I wonder why royalists ignore this part of history

@CountScrofula I remember reading about Oswald Mosley and his “Blackshirts". We’re taught that during WWII, the Allies were the "good guys” and in terms of the Holocaust they were—but—you look at what the Brits were doing in India and Africa, and at U.S. Jim Crow (sending racially segregated troops to fight Nazism, right ?). Plus the treatment of American citizens of Japanese descent, stripping them of their belongings and their freedom—and then sending draft notices to their sons in the concentration "internment" camps. Definitely more complicated than it first appears.

@bijouxbroussard Yeah absolutely. The depression was a time of political extremes for everyone and there was a huge surge in far left ideas at the same time as the rise in fascism. The Spanish Civil War was sort of a battlefield for this stuff.

Related to Oswald Mosley is a favourite song of mine about a massive street battle where his fascists marched through a Jewish neighbourhood and was met with a sea of angry people.

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@CountScrofula I couldn’t access the age-restriction (I don’t have an account) but I looked up the song. It’s great !
Of course, in the comments there was someone defending Mosley, saying it was a reaction to "all the immigrants pouring in, just like now". Clearly someone unaware of the British habit of "empire-building"—pouring into other people’s countries and colonizing them. 🤨