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The gist of Candace Owen's comments in this video are really quite close to establishment British opinion right up until 1939 and to a large degree afterwards. And this is a significant element in British fascism and colonial apologia.
Let's take her comment on declining (white) British birth rates first. Increasing birth rates was a significant feature of the 1945 Conservative manifesto on which 'depends the life of Britain and her enduring glory'.
conservativemanifesto.com/1945/1945-cons…
conservativemanifesto.com/1945/1945-cons…
On Hitler. Britain was still making non-aggression treaties with Hitler in 1938, allowing him to annex Czechoslovakia.
Allied countries refused to accept Jewish refugees. In 1938 CLR James called for all European borders to be opened to them instead of the plan being floated to resettle them in Kenya.
libcom.org/library/africa…
libcom.org/library/africa…
Opponents of appeasement like Churchill were not concerned about fascism or anti-Semitism, Churchill was a proponent of both, but Germany's military threat to the UK and Empire.
The idea that Churchill, or the UK generally was 'anti-fascist', was grafted onto history retrospectively following WWII, during a period when Britain (under Churchill as Prime Minister 1951-55) was still carrying out colonial atrocities overseas.
