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herzundseele:

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lemdi:

Especially after reading his writings.

He’s pacifist, yes, and was the face of one of the most successful non-violent revolutions in history, but he was also classist and misogynist and I’ve only recently come across statements of his which reveal the extent to which this is true and was very disappointed by the discovery.

And he was a racist.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness. 

He also said that

Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.

As well as

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

Not to mention

Kaffirs [black people] are as a rule uncivilised - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.

 

I feel like I’m going to get rocks thrown at me for this series of posts, but yes. I’m just not a Gandhi fan. I was, when all I knew was the passive resistance stuff, but you get a little deeper and it’s really…eh.

yup.

not surprised that many people didn’t know he was a racist. But society has a habit of idolizing people so much it downplays their flaws.