Quote: IR80 "The minute you quote the leftist BBC and Guardian (owned originally by a slave owner) tells me everything to know about your narrative.'"
Just out of curiosity, what do you regard as centrist or, failing that, legitimate news sources?
The founder of the Manchester Guardian was a mill owner who bought cotton from slave plantations, rather than being a slave owner himself. According to Wikipedia, anyway. [iPossibly[/i a fine distinction, but an example of how central to the British economy the profits of slavery were at that time.