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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

‘A lot of Britain’s problems date from WWI, when most of their upper classes were wiped out. WWII killed off some more, as well as the stronger of the middle classes, so what was left behind were a majority of weaklings, defectives, and unreliables.’

Bilge from start to finish. And utterly offensive too.


17 posted on 08/26/2009 9:13:07 AM PDT by the scotsman
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To: the scotsman

‘A history of the peoples of the British Isles’, By Thomas William Heyck, Stanford E. Lehmberg

(WWI) “The British lost 750,000 men in combat, about 9 percent of all men under the age of 45. The upper and middle classes lost more men *proportionally* than the working class. About 12 percent died, but 15 percent of officers and 17 percent of flying officers. Over 19 percent of Oxford students and graduates who served died, and 18 percent of those from Cambridge. 35 fellows of the Royal Academy, 55 from the Royal Institute of Chemistry. Likewise, prominent businessmen, professionals, scholars, and politicians perished.”


19 posted on 08/26/2009 1:42:04 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: the scotsman

Very offensive, like all eugenics type thinking.


27 posted on 08/31/2009 6:43:39 AM PDT by Vanders9
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