There was a SWAG distributed to a lot of Meta employees, which had a quote from Gandhi inscribed on it. And this stirred a hatred post in internal workplace post from an African American employee saying that this was offensive to the African community because Gandhi was quoted by the BBC that he called South Africans "savages" when he was young. More people joined in later to say how offensive it was. How reliable is a BBC article against a man who played a pivotal role in driving the British out of India? Please discuss in the comments. Do you think their anger was justified?
If we look hard enough at anyone, we can find something disagreeable. Taken to its extreme, no one is worth our praise, life is not worth the effort, and we should all just stop trying.
To set the record straight - Gandhi didnât fight against generic racial segregation in South Africa. He fought against Indians being treated as equal to Blacks. Recall the incident where he was thrown out from first class in train? He was furious about how can an Indian (Gujarati Baniya) treated so low. So from South African Blacks perspective Gandhi didnât do anything for them. Yet Gandhi was given a lot of credit for things he didnât do.
Gandhi later in life corresponded with many black freedom activists in Africa and was an inspiration to others, including MLK Jr. Most of the problems people have with Gandhi is the stuff he said during his time in South Africa where he basically parroted a bunch of colonial viewpoints until he developed a coherent philosophy of his own. He wasn't a freedom fighter or a global intellectual at this time - just a pissed off Indian millionaire lawyer with some strange ideas in his head.
Pivotal role? Hahaha, the dude was a British Raj loyalist. He was the reason Nehru came to power as PM and rest is history as you can see Pappu now vying for his so called birth right
We Indians do always respect and love Gandhi and Nehru. They played a pivotal role along with the likes of Bose and countless others in getting our independence. We donât need a hate filed Pakistani to comment on our leaders. Jai Hind!
I can second that. This Amazon is a hate-filled Pakistani beggar.
Under the British Raj, Indians were considered unequal to their British counterparts. Now imagine a progenitor of the aforementioned claim being put on a shirt as some kind of visionary, would it upset Indians and people of Indian descent?
Victim mentality
Yes. Gandhi was racist towards African people.
BBC has not given up in their attempts to divide by creating hatred between people. People should remember Gandhi did not merely fight for Indian independence but to end colonialism which benefited a lot of countries in South east asia, Africa and the Middle East.
MLK was a cheater and woman harrasser. Jinnah was a Congress loyalist. Iqbal was an Indian nationalist. George Orwell was a communist. Venereal Savarkar was a British bootlicker. Bal Thackeray was a comedian of Bihari origin. Ayaan Hirsi Ali was a supporter of the muslim brotherhood who supported the fatwa demanding death for Salman Rushdie. Abraham Lincoln was a man who argued against equality of black and white people. Hitler was a vegetarian dog loving painter. I can cherrypick parts of every historical figure's life that makes them (superficially) appear antithetical to the very causes they are credited with advancing in today's age. Ultimately all people are judged by the impact they had on the world - and which position they ended up acting on most strongly, not by what position they had at any point of time - specially in their formative years. It's hard to call Gandhi a raj loyalist after the purna swaraj era. Gandhi popularized the freedom movement amongst the masses and created political consciousness in a way that no other more radical/violent leader was able to. This political consciousness is ultimately the reason India managed to progress as an institutional democracy rather than ending up like our western neighbour - where the comprador class that inherited that state basically ended up running the country as a colony. I'm sure if you've consumed enough pro-Modi propaganda that you think the early Congress did the same, but there was a huge amount of difference between the two.
@paytm re-read your own passage after the first two lines. then ask yourself how and why did it become infeasible and think from first principles. no whitewashing necessary
Well here is one black person's perspective: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/my-trip-land-gandhi
Maybe King was unaware of a young Gandhiâs predisposition to prejudice. Keyword here being young.
It's easy to recast history is all I can say...
We both brown, letâs try and get along
Wasnât he also a pedophile
How to spot a modi bhakt đ
Celibate??