Obviously, as Lady Thatcher passed away recently, there's been a lot of talk about her. The most common words I've seen to describe her are: * Cold * Evil * Demonic * Ruthless * Psychopath I know she was anti-gay, with Section 28 and whatnot... I'm not defending her, but she was born in the 1920s ... Her attitude doesn't surprise me. But do you think it's really fair/"right" for people to call her the above, and celebrate her death?
If I may be honest, I love her, in a non-sexual and non-romantic manner. Her economic policies were beautiful and to me, the economy is the number one priority in politics, perhaps second only to national defense. Privitisation and reducing labour union. But that's just me; I can understand why people wouldn't like her depending on their own values. I'm also of Hong Kong descent, so Margaret Thatcher did a lot to protect Hong Kong from the CPC before it was handed back in 1997.
I might be inclined to use some of those words. I do tend to avoid using words like 'evil' and 'demonic' though. I don't believe in either demons or objective evil. Yes, she was born in the 1920s. But we don't judge everyone based on the times in which they were born. We hold values in the 2010s, and believe it or not, they are the same values which were held 90 years ago. The same values that people have held since the creation of societies. We've just expanded the definition of who we care about. Thatcher hurt a lot of people, and presided over the corruption of society. My issues with her are not solely related to her position on LGBT rights, if fact, I find that of little consequence. My issue is with materialism, capitalism, and everything else she stood for.
Well I'm only young and thought she was a mass-murderer until I was 10 but I haven't got an opinion on her really. But one thing I can say is that it is not right that people were celebrating her death, even if she was anti-gay. She was a person, not only an MP but a mother and she had a family.
We were never taught about her in school and she wasn't exactly a topic of conversation in my family household, so I know nothing about her apart from some homophobic Act. I feel so uneducated :dry: I do know someone from my LGBT Group who loved her though, we meet up on Thursday's so it was only a few days after she died that we met up and we were all discussing about it. I just don't know much about her and I feel awful because of it. :eusa_shif
Margret Thatcher seems be like a broken record at the moment. Some people such as me dislike her and her policies and a lot of people including my parents had a lower standard of living thanks to her policies, she created mass unemployment and destroyed the remnants of Clement Atlee's Britain, in the short term it was a quick easy fix but freeing up the market has led to multi-national companies paying people pennies and the government having subsidise pay just to help people feed their family at night. Others will disagree it all comes down to ideology if your a socialist or social liberal or somewhere on the left your unlikely love Thatcher most of the right adore her. Celebrating her death is disgusting but criticising her legacy or call her the names above can be freely used.
It probably is related a lot to political views. The LGBT community tends to weigh in heavily on the left side of the scale.
I think that she wasn't completely as bad as some people portray her as, but that she was a terrible leader and led Britain to great difficulties. I think she was a puppet of the men in the Conservative Party, especially the Lords, and a puppet of business interests. I don't really think she was personally wholly responsible, but that she is just the scapegoat to all the evils of the Conservatives and business world, who decided to have her as their face during a time of radical conservatism. In the beginning, she turned Britain around from a bad state, but she stayed in far too long, and the UK suffered for it.
As much as I disagree with her stance on homosexuality and detest her part in the hillsborough coverup she was and is the single most economically revolutionary influence the UK has ever known and she almost singlehandedly restored the UK to a position of international economic strength. I can admire her strength as the first female PM who stood against all the critics and much of her own political party to achieve what she thought was best for Britain.
I some way I respect her strength as the first female prime minister. But that's her only positive attribute, and to be honest, any women in her position, at that time would have had to adapt that strength to do anything. In every other respect she was a "cold" and "ruthless" women, with which I feel regret that she had to be the first female primer minister. Frankly...You won't see me shedding a tear for her.
was corrupted by the fact that she commited the sin of assuming everything she believed in was true and the right course. Also, evil, for calling herself a christian, then rejecting everything christ actually said, supllanting in its place the teaching of the slutbitchtroll from hell, Ayn Rand. she said nelson mandela was an evil terrorist for fighting against aparthied, and supported the ethnic/racial clensings in south africa.
She was the epitome of conservative/trickle-down economics: an inevitable economic collapse. Same thing happened at the beginning of the Reagan administration, and the same thing happened at the end of the Bush 43 administration.
