Shut down this racist paper!!
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2020 7:18 am
A petition has been launched to 'shut down' The Guardian newspaper over accusations of hypocrisy for backing Black Lives Matter protests, despite branding Abraham Lincoln 'abhorrent' during the US Civil War.
The paper, which was originally called the Manchester Guardian, was founded by John Edward Taylor in 1821 using profits from a cotton plantation that used slaves.
During the United States' Civil War 40 years later, it sided with the southern Confederates against President Lincoln, who wanted slavery abolished.
One extract from the paper on October 10, 1862, read: 'It was an evil day both for America and the world when he was chosen President of the United States.'
A year later it even opposed the Proclamation of Emancipation - which freed slaves - and described the President's time in office after his assassination as 'abhorrent'.
But in recent editorials the paper has tried to mask its past, with headlines such as 'The Guardian view on Colston's statue: a long time in going' and 'The Guardian view on Black Lives Matter worldwide: a common cause'.
Many are baying for statues linked to slavery to be torn down and some have suggested the Guardian should also fall for being on the wrong side of history.
A petition has even been launched now online to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) to 'shut down the newspaper'.
Novelist and journalist Tony Parsons, who organised the petition, tweeted: 'Shameful links to slave-owning Confederate south. Built on the profits of cotton fields. Shut down The Guardian Newspaper.'
Mail On Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens added on Twitter: 'I do think this (beautifully honest) confession of the SuperWoke Guardian's support for the slave-owning Confederacy (and its furious loathing for Lincoln) in the American Civil War is one of the great discoveries of the day. ''Who shall 'scape whipping?'''
And freelance journalist Kate Mulvery put: 'Maybe the Guardian should topple - given that its founder made a fortune in the cotton trade - went on the side of the confederates during the American Civil War - oh and denounced Lincoln for freeing slaves.'
Several supporters of the petition have also called out The Guardian's 'hypocrisy' on the editorial stance.
The newspaper was founded by cotton merchant John Edward Taylor in 1819, with his nephew CP Scott going on to become its most celebrated editor.
Taylor's industry thrived on the backs of cotton-picking slaves out of sight and mind in the Americas, and the paper continued its relationship with it after his death in 1844.
The Guardian maintained its relationship with cotton merchant advertisers and even railed against factory workers who refused to touch material picked by US slaves, according to Guido.
During the US Civil War - which lasted from 1861 to 1865 - the newspaper's onslaught against President Lincoln was ramped up.
On January 2, 1863, it accused Lincoln of having 'no desire to abolish slavery except as a means of extrication from the difficulties of government'.
A year and a half later, on November 22, 1864, it claimed: 'Nor is Mr Lincoln's re-election by fraud, violence, and intimidation rendered a matter of comparatively small importance solely by the fact that it reveals nothing with respect to the real wishes and thoughts of the majority of his fellow countrymen.'
And upon hearing Lincoln had been murdered, the newspaper published on April 27, 1865: 'Of his rule we can never speak except as a series of acts abhorrent to every true notion of constitutional right and human liberty.'
In his biography of the Manchester Guardian, David Ayerst noted: 'The Guardian was indeed convinced that the majority of Northerners, so far from having any antipathy to slavery, considered it to be the natural condition of the N**** and were content to profit by it.'
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