As protesters in Britain dishonor George Floyd’s memory by attacking statues of various imperialist figures from British history, Winston Churchill has become a target.

At least, Churchill’s Parliament Square statue has been scrawled with graffiti calling him a racist. Although most Britons see this slander of the World War II leader as absurd, others are more circumspect. At CNN, for example, Jack Guy frames the attack on Churchill alongside the suggestion that the former prime minister was responsible for the 1943-1944 Bengal famine. That famine killed more than 1 million Indians.