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|text=Read the [[Wikipedia]] page on [[Frederick Lugard]] and you'd hardly know you were reading about one of the great monsters of history. There isn't even the inevitable Wiki "Notice of Quibbles" or whatever they call'em. The same Anglo academics who comb every Central European writer's works for suspect nouns completely fail to notice their own [[genocidal]] horrors. So far, only a few writers from the Subcontinent ([[Amartya Sen|Sen]],[[Shashi Tharoor|Tharoor]]) and Africa ([[Chinua Achebe|Achebe]]) have sliced through the [[British Empire|Empire]]'s post-mortem PR armor. The damn thing's been dead for decades and it still intimidates or bamboozles these American academics (with a few honorable exceptions like [[Caroline Elkins]]). | |text=Read the [[Wikipedia]] page on [[Frederick Lugard]] and you'd hardly know you were reading about one of the great monsters of history. There isn't even the inevitable Wiki "Notice of Quibbles" or whatever they call'em. The same Anglo academics who comb every Central European writer's works for suspect nouns completely fail to notice their own [[genocidal]] horrors. So far, only a few writers from the Subcontinent ([[Amartya Sen|Sen]],[[Shashi Tharoor|Tharoor]]) and Africa ([[Chinua Achebe|Achebe]]) have sliced through the [[British Empire|Empire]]'s post-mortem PR armor. The damn thing's been dead for decades and it still intimidates or bamboozles these American academics (with a few honorable exceptions like [[Caroline Elkins]]). | ||
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Revision as of 23:08, 31 December 2020
 Frederick Lugard    (explorer, soldier, deep state operative) | |
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| Born | 22 January 1858 Madras, British India |
| Died | 11 April 1945 (Age 87) |
| Nationality | UK |
| Spouse | Flora Shaw |
| Member of | Milner Group, Milner Group/Outer Circle |
Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard was a UK deep state operative.
One of the Great Monsters of History
'The War Nerd' (aka Gary Brecher) wrote:
“Read the Wikipedia page on Frederick Lugard and you'd hardly know you were reading about one of the great monsters of history. There isn't even the inevitable Wiki "Notice of Quibbles" or whatever they call'em. The same Anglo academics who comb every Central European writer's works for suspect nouns completely fail to notice their own genocidal horrors. So far, only a few writers from the Subcontinent (Sen,Tharoor) and Africa (Achebe) have sliced through the Empire's post-mortem PR armor. The damn thing's been dead for decades and it still intimidates or bamboozles these American academics (with a few honorable exceptions like Caroline Elkins).”
The War Nerd [1]
