GUARDIAN FOUNDED ON SLAVE MONEY. SUDDENLY IT'S SILENT

Oh no! What will the statue-destroyers on The Guardian do now? Their own newspaper was created by a man made rich by slaves! The funniest thing is to see the race warriors on the Guardian Australia suddenly lost for words.

Oh no! What will the statue-destroyers on The Guardian do now? Their own newspaper was created by a man made rich by slaves! 

The funniest thing is to see the race warriors on the Guardian Australia suddenly lost for words.

Local Australian editors and supporters of the woke UK paper The Guardian have gone to ground in the wake of accusations of hypocrisy over the paper’s historic backing of slavery – including the fact it was founded on money from the slave trade.

The left-wing Guardian has editorialised in favour of the Black Lives Matter protests and even backed the toppling of historic statues in Britain — but now won’t comment after a petition called for the same “cancel culture” treatment to be dished out to it....

But it won’t comment about its infamous past. Nor would contributors, such as Greens MPs David Shoebridge and Senator Mehreen Faruqi.

Editor Lenore Taylor referred queries to her London bosses and said global editor-in-chief Katharine Viner “addresses that issue” in a 2017 essay.

“I have not editorialised on the matter,” she said.

But the essay doesn’t discuss, much less answer, how The Guardian infamously railed against US president Abraham Lincoln who fought to end slavery during the Civil War, saying it was an “evil day both for America and the world” when he was chosen as president.

The paper even opposed the US “Proclamation of Emancipation” to free the slaves and described President Lincoln’s time in office after his assassination as “abhorrent”.