Frederick Lugard
| Frederick Lugard link (Explorer, soldier, deep state operative) | |
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| File:Frederick Lugard.jpg | |
| Born | 22 January 1858 Madras, British India |
| Died | 11 April 1945 |
| Nationality | UK |
| Spouse | Flora Shaw |
UK deep state operative, Governor of Hong Kong 1907-1912 | |
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: {{#subobject: |Has superobject=Frederick Lugard |Has objectClass=Quotation |Has author='The War Nerd'|+sep=, |Has 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 (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).” |Is about=Frederick Lugard,British Empire,historiography,Frederick Lugard,Nigeria,Wikipedia,colonialism|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate= |Sourced from= |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName= |Has sourceURL=https://twitter.com/TheWarNerd/status/1014930018299006977
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“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]
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