Thread by @EveKeneinan

I'll be succinct, given that it is easy to make a charge, but takes longer to refute one. Research for yourself, everyone.

Charge: Thatcher stopped milk rations for malnourished children. ⬇︎

∙ the quantification of "malnourished children" must be SOME or ALL

https://twitter.com/venomstrike/status/1399725641575059456

∙ Not all, because she only lowered the age to a milk entitlement
∙ not some, because any child who was legitimately malnourished could still get free milk from the government

So, the actual quantification is "none."
So, the charge is FALSE.

What Thatcher did was lower the age from 11 to 7 whereby UK children were given free, rather nasty and of dubious benefit, milk to children each day. The age was lowered 3 years prior, and later lowered to age 5.

If this was PURE EVIL (as claimed), why has it not been reversed?

Removing an entitlement of dubious benefit in an effort to save and/or redirect money to educational outcomes, a policy which was not even to Thatcher's liking, is hardly evidence that she is EVIL.

"Okay, maybe I was lying about the malnourished part, but she still lowered the age of the free milk entitlement!"

So?

"Forget genocide, Thatcher saved the public money! That's the true evil!"

How absurd.

"But the children! Think of the children!"

How many died from this lack of milk? Is it none? I bet it's none.

"OMG, Thatcher saved the British people money by scaling back a dubious, state-funded benefit! How can you not see she is morally equivalent to the great mass murderers of human history???"

I have the sufficient modicum of moral sense to see there is no such equivalence. 🤷🏻‍♀️

So much for Thatcher's "great evil" of saving the British people money, a thing done before and after her, and never undone (despite its alleged equivalence to genocide and democide).

So, I repeat: That point was A LIE. So I will disregard the other claims.

If you want to convince me someone is evil, it's a bad idea to LIE ABOUT THEM.

That leads only to my dismissing your claim, rather than my conviction your claim is true.

The only reason to LIE about someone is that you HAVE TO to make your claim work.