Also a Truman version needs to be here because Nukes.
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Filthy pedo.
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Everything but africans F*ck Ghandi
arps123maploverdude on
He was… bad?? … 🙁
AdIntelligent9241 on
It’s also Gandhi according to jews (he literally said they shouldn’t resist the Nazis in ww2)
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This was a reply to a comment but putting it here as well.
He was racist in 1903 called black people dirty and animals and was favourable to white rule over them. A biographer that wrote about him Ramachandra Guha.
The idea of a racial hierarchy was widely held Europe and Ghandi as a lawyer who studied in London would have certainly pucked up those ubiquitous ideas then if he didn’t earlier.
His writing in 1893 when he first arrived at south Africa even showed he truly believed that he as a educated upper class Indian was better than black south African.
He began to radically change those feelings in 1906 during the Bhambatha uprising. He helped the British by setting up and running a volunteer ambulance service. Like plenty others of the colonised native elite who supported the British empire, he maintained his sense of dignity by taking Queen Victoria’s 1858 proclamation of equality at face value and not thinking deeper on that matter the same thing he did with his racism.
Here are his own words about the uprising from an autobiography:
“The Zulu “rebellion” was full of new experiences and gave me much food for thought. The Boer War had not brought home to me the horrors of war with anything like the vividness that the “rebellion” did. This was no war but a man-hunt, not only in my opinion, but also in that of many Englishmen with whom I had occasion to talk. To hear every morning reports of the soldiers’ rifles exploding like crackers in innocent hamlets, and to live in the midst of them was a trial. But I swallowed the bitter draught, especially as the work of my Corps consisted only in nursing the wounded Zulus. I could see that but for us the Zulus would have been uncared for. This work, therefore, eased my conscience.”
You can see by the end of the paragraph he was pretty freaked out by the way the white British soldiers were treating the Zulu population because one of their leader would not pay tax to the British.
His ambulance service had to focus on wounded blacks because plenty of the white medical staff off loaded them onto his service.
He started to break out the racism he had around this time. Slowly but it was there.
Any reasonable analysis would have to conclude that Gandhi was, until around the early- or mid-1910s, decidedly racist. And throughout this period, his sense of solidarity is more with the white colonisers than with the natives.
He used the racist word Kaffir to describe blacks and was firmly against mixing between Indian and blacks and was critical of Indian boys having relationships with black girls.
But he was starting to do things in solidarity with blacks as well and even protest injustice against them. In 1910 he choose to ride in third class with blacks partly in empathy with “the hardships that the Kaffirs had to suffer”. That’s a quote from him.
By 1913 he completely stopped calling blacks Kafir and instead called them Zulu.
His change may be connected also with his increasing opposition to caste distinctions in personal and political life: by this time, he is on occasion cleaning the chamber pot of his untouchable caste Christian clerk, and didn’t follow caste rules on diet.
By 1928, when he wrote Satyagraha in South Africa. His autobiography which I have linked below. https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/satyagraha_in_south_africa.pdf.
His sympathies and were firmly with the blacks of south Africa. He referred to them a couple times as the in that same time period, talks as “so-called uncivilized Zulus”.
He definitely consider them as a People worth of dignified treatment and life by that time.
By 1939 he accepted Indian and native south Africans have different rights and privileges, with the Indian population being a bit better off and said this:
“if I discovered that our rights conflicted with their vital interests, I would advise the forgoing of those rights. They are the inhabitants of South Africa as we are of India” https://www.gandhiashramsevagram.org/gandhi-literature/mahatma-gandhi-collected-works-volume-76.pdf
Here is straight up telling his own racial group not to tread on south Africa blacks.
Mind you a lot of his racist comments were made in his 30’s- early 40’s and he lived too think 79.
To determine him to be a racist based on his first half of his life while he spent the second half repudiating racism amongst other social evils is just misinformation.
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What about Gandhi according to his young niece?
Also a Truman version needs to be here because Nukes.
Filthy pedo.
Everything but africans F*ck Ghandi
He was… bad?? … 🙁
It’s also Gandhi according to jews (he literally said they shouldn’t resist the Nazis in ww2)
This was a reply to a comment but putting it here as well.
He was racist in 1903 called black people dirty and animals and was favourable to white rule over them. A biographer that wrote about him Ramachandra Guha.
The idea of a racial hierarchy was widely held Europe and Ghandi as a lawyer who studied in London would have certainly pucked up those ubiquitous ideas then if he didn’t earlier.
His writing in 1893 when he first arrived at south Africa even showed he truly believed that he as a educated upper class Indian was better than black south African.
He began to radically change those feelings in 1906 during the Bhambatha uprising. He helped the British by setting up and running a volunteer ambulance service. Like plenty others of the colonised native elite who supported the British empire, he maintained his sense of dignity by taking Queen Victoria’s 1858 proclamation of equality at face value and not thinking deeper on that matter the same thing he did with his racism.
Here are his own words about the uprising from an autobiography:
“The Zulu “rebellion” was full of new experiences and gave me much food for thought. The Boer War had not brought home to me the horrors of war with anything like the vividness that the “rebellion” did. This was no war but a man-hunt, not only in my opinion, but also in that of many Englishmen with whom I had occasion to talk. To hear every morning reports of the soldiers’ rifles exploding like crackers in innocent hamlets, and to live in the midst of them was a trial. But I swallowed the bitter draught, especially as the work of my Corps consisted only in nursing the wounded Zulus. I could see that but for us the Zulus would have been uncared for. This work, therefore, eased my conscience.”
You can see by the end of the paragraph he was pretty freaked out by the way the white British soldiers were treating the Zulu population because one of their leader would not pay tax to the British.
His ambulance service had to focus on wounded blacks because plenty of the white medical staff off loaded them onto his service.
He started to break out the racism he had around this time. Slowly but it was there.
Any reasonable analysis would have to conclude that Gandhi was, until around the early- or mid-1910s, decidedly racist. And throughout this period, his sense of solidarity is more with the white colonisers than with the natives.
He used the racist word Kaffir to describe blacks and was firmly against mixing between Indian and blacks and was critical of Indian boys having relationships with black girls.
But he was starting to do things in solidarity with blacks as well and even protest injustice against them. In 1910 he choose to ride in third class with blacks partly in empathy with “the hardships that the Kaffirs had to suffer”. That’s a quote from him.
By 1913 he completely stopped calling blacks Kafir and instead called them Zulu.
His change may be connected also with his increasing opposition to caste distinctions in personal and political life: by this time, he is on occasion cleaning the chamber pot of his untouchable caste Christian clerk, and didn’t follow caste rules on diet.
By 1928, when he wrote Satyagraha in South Africa. His autobiography which I have linked below.
https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/satyagraha_in_south_africa.pdf.
His sympathies and were firmly with the blacks of south Africa. He referred to them a couple times as the in that same time period, talks as “so-called uncivilized Zulus”.
He definitely consider them as a People worth of dignified treatment and life by that time.
By 1939 he accepted Indian and native south Africans have different rights and privileges, with the Indian population being a bit better off and said this:
“if I discovered that our rights conflicted with their vital interests, I would advise the forgoing of those rights. They are the inhabitants of South Africa as we are of India”
https://www.gandhiashramsevagram.org/gandhi-literature/mahatma-gandhi-collected-works-volume-76.pdf
Here is straight up telling his own racial group not to tread on south Africa blacks.
Mind you a lot of his racist comments were made in his 30’s- early 40’s and he lived too think 79.
To determine him to be a racist based on his first half of his life while he spent the second half repudiating racism amongst other social evils is just misinformation.