Gandhi Is Deeply Revered, but His Attitudes on Race and Sex Are Under Scrutiny

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 5:11 PM UTC

quetzthecoatl wrote: post #33

tim333 wrote: post #8

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Yeah some of his earlier stuff was never very PC eg. >At a speech in Mumbai in 1896, Gandhi said that the Europeans in Natal wished “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 said that in his twenties, when he was loyal servant to the british crown. Freedom movement, ahimsa, indepedence etc all came later. Much, much later. There are lot to hold Gandhi accountable for - things he believed and did after he became the mahatma/saint. His own fundamentalist believes (religious and other unscientific irrational backward believes), his tolerance of islamic fundamentalism even when it was kil…

Post by oh_sigh » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 7:41 PM UTC

CathedralBorrow wrote: post #29

oh_sigh wrote: post #24

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Well, they literally took down a statue of Gandhi. I wonder if we just won't be able to have statues any more? Or, we can only have statues of people whose lives are largely inscrutable or unknown to the public.

The University of Ghana removed a statue of Gandhi last year, that had been there since 2016, after several professors petitioned for its removal. Is this the takedown you are referring to, that makes you fear about all statues in general?