Karl Marx favored the British empire. Therefore anyone who says they are a communist are as bad as Kipling.
According to several sources, including the BBC, theManchester Evening News and The National, students at Manchester University, which is where Matthew Cobb teaches (he IS NOT TO BLAME) decided to paint over a mural that displayed a poem by Rudyard Kipling, replacing it with a poem by Maya Angelou.
The defacing was done by leaders of the student union, who apparently didn’t consult either the University or their own constituents. The BBC reports:
The protest was an attempt to reclaim history by those who have been “oppressed by the likes of Kipling for so many centuries, and continue to be to this day,” according to Sara Khan, the liberation and access officer at the student union.
In a Facebook post, the student official said Kipling’s works “sought to legitimate the British Empire’s presence in India and dehumanise people of colour”.
And here’s a statement by one of…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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