Father-of-three, 64, is fined after daubing 'Dickens racist' on museum

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Dickens, writing as though he were a addressing Indian citizens, said: 'I... have the honour to inform you Hindoo gentry that it is my intention, with all possible avoidance of unnecessary cruelty and with all merciful swiftness of execution, to exterminate the Race from the face of the earth.'
52% : He added that his 'actions were genuinely acts to protect others,' describing how he was 'inspired' by the toppling of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, one of which he had attended locally before defacing the Uncle Mack plaque.
35% : Dickens said he made the character Jewish because it 'unfortunately was true, of the time to which the story refers, that the class of criminal almost invariably was a Jew'.

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